This paper introduces an approach of enhancing tourism web sites, giving the ability for such sites to be used as a tool to allow tourists to tag content of choice for downloading and viewing on their own mobile device whilst on visit. Tourists, upon installation to their mobile device, can view content material and a map of Mytilene (Lesvos, Greece) without the need to “connect” to any mobile ...

This paper presents an innovative web-based „green‟ remote process control laboratory focused on the necessity of chemical control education community. The usefulness of the remote laboratory proposed in this paper is justified by two relevant factors: the opportunity of organizing remote experiments, saving students time and money; and the integration of the „Sustainability‟ (transversal compe...

This paper examines entrepreneurship in order to analyze, first, the degree to which the opportunity to start or own a business affects the household’s saving behavior and the implication of this behavior for the distribution of wealth and, second, the relationship between the extent of entrepreneurship in the economy and socioeconomic mobility, that is, the movement of families across wealth c...

Financial footnotes analysis provides an opportunity to communicate with stakeholders beyond the numbers in the main body of financial statements. The combination of values in financial reports and their disclosure in footnote parts supports financial decisions in a wisely manner. Nevertheless, the unstructured nature of footnotes poses a barrier for an accurate, automatic, and real-time financ...

The work we present here reports on the further development and testing of an experimental transport-level protocol. The protocol runs on top of IP, and is intended for mobile, wireless devices. Its central concern is to conserve battery-powered energy used for transmission while maintaining high levels of data throughput. It can be adjusted to achieve higher throughput at the expense of lesser...

This article aims to serve several purposes. First of all, it provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges involved in the implementation of a sustainable supply chain, as well as the CLSC. Secondly, It includes an analysis of the cost saving, risk mitigation, the delivery of a superior service with the provision of returns and the opportunity of reducing the company’s carbon footpr...

Metastatic disease is responsible for most of cancer lethality. A main obstacle for therapy of advanced cancers is that the outcome of metastasis depends on a complex interplay between malignant and host cells. The perioperative period represents an underutilized window of opportunity for cancer treatment where tumor-host interactions can be modulated, reducing the risk of local recurrences and...

This paper illustrates the importance of controllers on energy saving opportunity of a partially loaded three-phase induction motor drive in variable load and speed applications. An overview of various controllers: loss model controller, search controller and their hybridization are given. Fuzzy Pre-Compensated Proportional Integral (FPPI) is used to improve motor‟s dynamic performances during ...

With current healthcare reform and calls for improving care quality and safety, there is renewed emphasis on high-value care. Moreover, given the significant healthcare resource utilization for patients with chronically progressive illnesses or for patients at the end of life, innovative and efficient care delivery models are urgently needed. We propose here the concept of a sentinel hospitaliz...

Familial Pancreatic Cancer (FPC) is the autosomal dominant inheritance of a genetic predisposition to pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, penetrance is assumed to be high but not complete. It was first described in 1987 and since then many families have been identified, but the candidate disease gene remains elusive and the very existence of the syndrome is sometimes questioned. FPC identifies a ...