Introduction Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2012. Oregon ESSENCE is an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system that captures emergency department data. To strengthen the capabilities of Oregon ESSENCE, OPHD sought other sources of health-outcome information, including ...

> upshot • Creativity, collaboration and learning are fascinatingly messy and interconnected processes. Does knowledge develop by engaging in a collaborative creative process, or does existing knowledge allow us to create more creative artefacts? Does one build upon the other in a bricolage process, familiar to constructionist learning experiences? If so, how can we best facilitate this type of...

This paper investigates the frustrating problems of integration and interoperability of Building Automation and Control System (BACS) and presents two possible solutions on the basis of the hierarchy architecture of BACS. One is to employ a unified protocol for the three levels of the BACS networks. The other is the integration at management level. For the first solution, as one candidate, BACn...