Flexible decision-making tools are needed to support action plans for plastics and other pollutants. Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs) technological readiness levels (TRLs) will enable systematic validation global harmonization of plastic pollution monitoring methods.

We use a specific-factor model to exarnine the conditions under which policymakers are able to increase aggregate production of high-tech goods by production or R&D-subsidies in the short and long-mn. The difficulties for the policy-makers in designing a subsidy scheme that succeeds in expanding aggregate high-tech production involve taking into account the trade-off between resources used in R...

[Purpose] Observational study investigating the influence of various ankle-foot orthoses on the spatiotemporal gait parameters and functional balance in chronic stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] Fifteen chronic stroke patients participated in this study after providing informed consent. Two groups of patients were differentiated based on the Timed Up and Go Test. Patients were tested in t...

In this issue of the Journal, Chan et al. (1 ) make the significant observation, by three distinct measures, that the concentrations of remnant lipoproteins (RLPs) in plasma are increased in patients with obesity. This increase in RLPs could explain, in part, the increased cardiovascular risk associated with obesity (2 ). To date, although LDLand HDL-cholesterol are clearly accepted as independ...

In this overview we describe how user experience research and design has been established in Tech Mahindra Ltd. (TechM), and how it is organised to support both short term development programs and long term research. While focusing on research activities at TechM, the challenges of assessing real user experience issues critical to business success, user experience measurement methodology and fu...

This paper analyses the evolution of contextual conditions during advancement degree technological maturity innovative technical solutions and their interplay with R&D processes in setting collaborative inter-organisational publicly-funded projects. Extant literature investigated role for development process technologies across different settings, but has not yet been analysed detail same over ...

the RWTH Aachen University for reviewing this thesis and giving me the opportunity to write it in the field of Computer Graphics, which fascinates me since my first steps on the Commodore 128D. A special thanks goes to my advisor Volker Schönefeld, who got me interested in Megatexturing and Virtual Texturing. He always took some of his spare time to read my long emails and had enough patience t...

1 The availability of technological means to enhance and repair human cognitive function raises 2 questions about the perceived morality of their use. In this study, we administered a survey 3 to the public in which subjects were asked to report how willing they would be to enhance 4 and/or repair specific cognitive abilities. We found that subjects were more willing to use tech5 nologies to en...

Discourse plays an important role in innovation and the diffusion of technology. Various types of actors act as knowledge entrepreneurs to collectively build this discourse. This paper examines the emergence of a new type of actor, tech bloggers, within technology discourse communities. Tech bloggers are authors of web logs focused on developments with new technologies. We examine tech bloggers...