Energy has always been of particular importance to humanity. Oil and gas have been some of the energies that greatly influenced the national security of countries, which produce and consume energy. With the transformation of geostrategic discourse into geo-economic discourse in recent decades and the key role of economics in global relations, oil as the basis of modern industry has enjoyed a hi...

Future Internet for eHealth (Dagstuhl Seminar 12231) Katarzyna Wac, David Hausheer, Markus Fiedler, and Paolo Bonato . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Data Reduction and Problem Kernels (Dagstuhl Seminar 12241) Michael R. Fellows, Jiong Guo, Dániel Marx, and Saket Saurabh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Putting Data on the Map (Dagstuhl Seminar 12261) Stephen Kobourov, Alexander Wolff, and Frank v...

Renewable energies become more important, and they contribute to the EU’s goals for greenhouse-gas reduction. However, their fluctuating nature calls for demand-side-management techniques, which balance energy generation and consumption. Such techniques are currently not broadly deployed. This paper describes the latest results from the FINSENY project on how FutureInternet enablers and market ...

This paper provides an overview of emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs) that can be expected to become socially relevant in the next 10 to 15 years. It describes the results of a dual discourse analysis of publiccations on emerging ICTs. Sources were, on the one hand, government/policy publications and, on the other, publications by research institutions. This discourse an...

An accurate diagnosis of a problem is an important part of the solution. It is precisely for this reason that the Regional Bureau for Arab States has commissioned a group of distinguished Arab intellectuals to produce the Arab Human Development Report. The wealth of unbiased, objective analysis it contains is part of our contribution to Arab peoples and policy-makers in the search for a brighte...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Following the world's first successful implementation of a universal hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination program for infants in Taiwan 20 years ago, we performed this study to evaluate the long-term protection afforded by HBV vaccination and to rationalize further prevention strategies. METHODS HBV seromarkers, including hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibodies to ...