With a changing structure of networks and application systems due to the requirements of decentralised enterprises and open service markets, distributed systems with rapidly increasing complexity are evolving. New concepts for an efficient management of such systems have to be developed. Focussing on the service level, examples for existing concepts are trading to find services in a distributed...

Since the emergence of cardiac computed tomography (CT) at the turn of the 21st century, there has been an exponential growth in research and clinical development of the technique, with contributions from investigators and clinicians from varied backgrounds: physics and engineering, informatics, cardiology, and radiology. However, terminology for the field is not unified. As a consequence, ther...

today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devoted many studies in literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. it is obvious that in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on people has been presented. this paper defines ...

Product usage experiences have a significant impact on postpurchase evaluation and subsequent behavior. Consumers look to their own experiences, as well as those of others, when deciding what to buy and what to recommend. Contrary to the intuition that varied experiences should enhance evaluation, five studies demonstrate that in some situations, perceiving usage experiences as less—not more—va...

OBJECTIVE To study existing problem list terminologies (PLTs), and to identify a subset of concepts based on standard terminologies that occur frequently in problem list data. DESIGN Problem list terms and their usage frequencies were collected from large healthcare institutions. MEASUREMENT The pattern of usage of the terms was analyzed. The local terms were mapped to the Unified Medical L...

Today, concepts such as place attachment, sense of place, meaning of place, place identity, has devoted many studies In literature of architecture and urban design particularly in the field of environmental psychology. It is obvious that in all these concepts, various aspects of interaction between human and place and the impact that places have on people has been presented. This paper defines ...