An enterprise federated architecture intends to mirror the structure of the organisation, aiming to provide better support for both new and legacy applications within a distributed environment and facilitating data exchange between applications to support information integration. Under this architectural form, the organisation’s information systems are separated out into autonomous co-operating...

Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize industries by offering decentralized, transparent, data provenance, auditable, reliable, and trustworthy features. However, cross-chain interoperability is one of crucial challenges preventing widespread adoption blockchain applications. Cross-chain represents ability for network interact share with another network. Contemporary solutions...

  Background: Empowerment of elderly people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can increase their quality of life and feeling of well-being. However, few researches focused on the obstacles and factors facilitating empowerment in elderly people with COPD and an adequate determining of these factors need an in-depth understanding of the meaning of these factors which influences em...

Adopting a microfoundations approach to the analysis of intra-multinational enterprise (MNE) knowledge integration, we focus on mobile inventors and their boundary-spanning experience. Using inventor-patent data US-based MNEs, show that intra-organizational cross-border mobility inter-organizational have respectively positive negative effect integration. Cross-border within MNE enables temporar...

AV1 is an open-source video coding technique developed by Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Many powerful tools introduced to has made its encoding time significantly increased. In this paper, we aim at simplifying the encoder facilitating selection of some depending on users' specific application preference. We firstly design a tool OFF-test evaluate performance intra, inter, and in-loop filt...