Wearable blood processing devices offer an attractive solution to problems inherent in clinic-based, intermittent end-stage renal disease therapies. What is involved in transitioning even a part of the current clinic-based population to ambulatory therapy has not been clearly enumerated. This paper addresses what a first-generation wearable device might accomplish, how issues of safety will nee...

This article describes the initial phase of a study where a sample of 72 questionnaires have been distributed to people who identified themselves as Internet users that participate in e-communities for business purposes the data collected where analyzed. The purpose of the research was to investigate the perceptions of online buyers in Greece and study their online behavior when participating i...

Radio spectrum has increasingly become a strategic scarce resource in the digital world. The demand for pervasive wireless connectivity has exploded driven by smart devices and the consumption of video and Internet on the move as well as innovative services in various sectors such as transport, healthcare or energy. The Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) and the Radio Spectrum Policy Programme (RS...

In today's world, Public expenditures on health are one of the most important issues for governments. These increased expenditures are putting pressure on public budgets. Therefore, health policy makers have focused on the performance of their health systems and many countries have introduced reforms to improve the performance of their health systems. This study investigates the most important ...

Although business executives remain skeptical about the extent of payoffs from investment in information technology (IT), strategic alignment or the alignment of information systems strategy with business strategy continues to be ranked as one of the most important issues facing corporations. In this paper, we report on the results of a process-level study to investigate the relationship betwee...

This document aims to provide a framework for the support of wireless LANs (WLANs) in an IPv6-only environment. It is hoped that it will serve as an IPv6 WLAN design and implementation guide for readers that are unfamiliar with IPv6 and/or WLANs. The original focus for this document was to be on access control solutions but we have now expanded the scope to include all aspects of deploying IPv6...

A novel process involving a paper-based ultrafiltration (UF) membrane was developed via paper coating technology. The membrane employed a paper sheet as support layer and a coated thin film layer of adhesive. The proper selection of paper sheet support layer was crucial to the performance of the ultrafiltration membrane. A paper sheet with beating degree of 85SR and basis weight of 50g/m was ch...

This paper presents a novel argumentation framework to support Issue-Based Information System style debates on design alternatives, by providing an automatic quantitative evaluation of the positions put forward. It also identifies several formal properties of the proposed quantitative argumentation framework and compares it with existing non-numerical abstract argumentation formalisms. Finally,...

Systems for collaboration are essential tools in an undergraduate software engineering course. A combination of software configuration management, issue tracking and collaborative documentation systems is a common base for courses with a group project component. We offer reflection from our experience using such tools in undergraduate courses in Mexico (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalaj...

Wireless Gigabit (WIGIG) network is a development and promotion of high speed wirelesscommunications in the 60 GHz band technology. The demand for higher data transmission rates and advances in the 60 GHz band technology are the keys for this new technology. WiGig technology uses 60 GHz band, where the availability of higher bandwidth in this band range and dependence on Beamforming function ma...