Portlet-based Grid portals have become a crucial part of the cyberinfrastructure by providing component-based problem solving environments for scientists. Although portals aim to provide user-friendly environments with easy-to-use interfaces, the development of portals and their portlet components are time consuming. We aim to provide reusable components for rapid portlet development. Our appro...

Introduction The main objective of this case report is to demonstrate endoscopic calcaneoplasty (ECP) using two lateral portals. Case Report The patient is middle-aged male aged 40 years, with higher basal metabolic index (BMI) and was diagnosed having a Haglund's bump and was on conservative treatment for a period of over 6 months, with minimal relief. We did ECP with the patient in lateral ...

Enterprise portals are being viewed as the next generation application platform of choice, offering benefits over both client/server and thin client arrangements. By providing a mediating layer between the information applications and resources of the organisation and the individuals using them, enterprise portals appear to provide a unique context to allow both the organisational and individua...

Due to the problem of information overload, locating relevant Web portals precisely based on user requirements is quite an essential task. As the need for application-to-application communication and interoperability grows, providing Web portal services that satisfy human as well as machine requirements is becoming a new challenge for Web portals. However, a Web portal capability expressing mec...

There is a wealth of information on the Web about any number of topics. Many communities in developing regions are often interested in information relating to specific topics. For example, health workers are interested in specific medical information regarding epidemic diseases in their region while teachers and students are interested in educational information relating to their curriculum. Th...

In this article we point at the large potentials that corporate community portals can have to support the business model of companies. In particular corporate community portals of the next generation are characterized by the integration of business intelligence tools which can facilitate or even automate many business processes. However, we also emphasize the challenges for user management that...

The article examines the question of emotions experienced by patients, users medical portals, who “found themselves” in complex structure healthcare system Poland, arising from interactions with professionals, and process experiencing course disease. Statements published portals/internet forums were analyzed. research sample consisted 15 portals high level activity registered users. analysis wa...

BACKGROUND Knowledge exchange portals are emerging as web tools that can help facilitate knowledge management in public health. We conducted a review to better understand the nature of these portals and their contribution to knowledge management in public health, with the aim of informing future development of portals in this field. METHODS A systematic literature search was conducted of the ...

In Germany, there are a great number of portals. The academic information portal vascoda covers about 40 individual subject portals in many different fields. A study was conducted in 2007 to find out if and how these portals serve the needs of their target groups. In a first step, researchers were asked about their specific needs and wishes.1 In addition, the contents and search functions of se...

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