This note is yet another opportunity to consider why it is so difficult to develop systems and networks with predictable behavior — and especially those that must satisfy stringent requirements for trustworthiness. We contrast these difficulties with somewhat similar situations in several other fields. In particular, we seek to discover some useful insights from consideration of analogous probl...

In clinical holistic practice, it is recommended that ample time is spent with the gynecological or pelvic examination, especially in cases of women with suspected old emotional traumas following early childhood cases of incest or sexual abuse. The holistic principles of holding and processing should be followed with the purpose of healing the patient, re-establishing the natural relationship w...

Faces are processed holistically, but the locus of holistic processing remains unclear. We created two novel races of faces (Lunaris and Taiyos) to study how experience with face parts influences holistic processing. In Experiment 1, subjects individuated Lunaris wherein the top, bottom, or both face halves contained diagnostic information. Subjects who learned to attend to face parts exhibited...

BACKGROUND In order to support cancer patients, nurses need to identify different physio-psycho- social needs of patients using a holistic approach. Focusing on Quality of Life (QoL) is congruent with the philosophy of a holistic approach in nursing. The main aim of this research study thus was to identify the level of agreement between cancer patients and nurses about cancer patients' QoL. M...

Occupational therapy is a predominantly female profession; 93% to 95% of occupational therapists are women. The implications and ramifications of this reality have seldom been directly addressed. In this article, beliefs about balance, activity, environment, and autonomy are explored from the perspectives of occupational therapy, feminism, holistic health, and medicine. The assertion that occup...

OBJECTIVE To describe an integrated, holistic conceptual framework and research paradigm for a better understanding of the nutrition transition in middle- and low-income countries. MOTIVATION Current inability effectively to prevent the increasing burden related to changes in food consumption patterns and other health behaviours of populations in transition motivates a new approach for nutrit...

Reacting on an unstable environment in an agile manner is a creative driven act. The creative needs may be motivated by the amount of possible solutions, from which one solution might be selected, that fits the respective enterprise perfectly. However , enterprise model might be defined as an instrument that offers the development of solutions under the consideration of various aspects of the e...

With a growing concern on the considerable energy consumed by HPC platforms and data centers, research efforts are targeting toward green approaches with higher energy efficiency. In particular, virtualization is emerging as the prominent approach to mutualize the energy consumed by a single server running multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) instances. However, little understanding has been obtaine...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the inefficiency in resource allocation for disaster relief procurement operations. It presents a holistic and reconfigurable procurement auctions-based framework which includes the announcement construction, bid construction and bid evaluation phases. Design/methodology/approach – The holistic framework is developed in a way that auctioneers an...

Using n-Dimensional (nD) modelling techniques in the European Union funded IntelCities project (6.8 Million Euros, Framework 6 Integrated Project) the “Built environment Data Integration System” (BDIS) has been produced. BDIS combines building scale and urban scale data to give a holistic view of the built environment, and thus support the purchase and refurbishment of buildings. This paper wil...