In the context of global digitalisation all spheres society, state needs to master new tools for building effective communication with citizens. Social network algorithms and data collection mechanisms significantly impact formation information flows each user, format their views preferences, even push them make certain decisions based on collected about a person. Network initially created targ...

INTRODUCTION The SCAN pancreatic cancer workgroup aimed to develop Singapore Cancer Network (SCAN) clinical practice guidelines for systemic therapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma in Singapore. MATERIALS AND METHODS The workgroup utilised a modified ADAPTE process to calibrate high quality international evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to our local setting. RESULTS Five internatio...

In reply to the commentary by Talis Bachmann on a recent article by one of us entitled ‘‘Object substitution masking and its relation to other forms of masking’’ (Enns, 2004), we address the following issues. First, Bachmann s perceptual retouch theory concerns the role of nonspecific thalamic modulation in conscious visual experience. It is a reasonable theory, grounded in neurophysiological e...

The Internet, a global network of digital technologies, is arguably the largest and most democratic system that human beings have ever created. It is often proposed that ICT revolution, particularly the Internet, could be well utilised by the parliamentarians to improve the responsiveness and efficiency of transactions between government and elected politicians, elected politicians and their co...

The referral incentive programs are one of the common incentive mechanisms to attract new customers in e-commerce websites, especially for start-ups, by leveraging existing customer’s social networks. Designing an appropriate referral reward program will allow online businesses to increase customer base and enhance sales. This paper leverages the ultimatum game (sense of fairness) and construal...

This paper overviews the recent work of Peter Enns, The Evolution of Adam, examining the implications of Enns’s conclusions for the topics of biblical inspiration and inerrancy, human origins, and the exegesis of the biblical text. Included in this overview is a discussion of Enns’s theological and philosophical assumptions that impinge upon his conclusions, as well as the published concerns th...

In today’s networked society where everybody and everything becomes interconnected, it is very important to be able to identify key actors and key relationships in such a complex multi-layered eco-system. This paper focuses on the specific research challenge of identifying the most influential actors in a social network built through combining relationships among same actors in two different do...

In this paper we seek to improve understanding of the structure of human mobility, and to use this in the design of forwarding algorithms for Delay Tolerant Networks for the dissemination of data amongst mobile users. Cooperation binds but also divides human society into communities. Members of the same community interact with each other preferentially. There is structure in human society. With...

Actor-network theory, which is considered as a development of socio-technical structuralism school, observes reservation and stability of networks containing personal and impersonal components such as individuals, organizations, communication software and hardware, and infrastructural standards by examination of socio-technical dimensions concurrently.The goal of this research is studying the i...