emerging technologies such as biotheraputics are widely view as the source of new types of competitive advantage. despite their huge potential gaining advantages from these technologies requires adopting different types of managerial skills and insight than those utilized in the context of incremental improvements. this makes established firms particularly vulnerable to the challenges of these ...

Hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients has been considered part of the standard of care in managing patients with shock and/or acute lung injury, but outcome benefit, particularly in pediatric patients, has been questioned. There is difficulty in validating the reliability of monitoring devices, especially since this validation requires comparison to the pulmonary artery catheter, wh...

I t is difficult to believe how much musculoskeletal medicine has improved over the past 30 years. In the sports medicine world, the arthroscope has been one of the instruments that has revolutionized orthopaedic care of the synovial joints, especially the knee, shoulder, and recently, the hip. These developments are far beyond what orthopaedic entrepreneurs of the 1970s and 1980s could imagine...

The purpose of the Emerging Technologies project to which this work belongs, is to compare the applicability of cluster computers to various problems to that of conventional supercomputers. This article details the rewriting of an existing Particle-In-Cell electrostatic simulation code targeted at SMP computers to a message-passing approach, and a comparison of the results obtained when running...

The IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) is responsible for identifying and nurturing new technology directions through various activities including the formation of initiatives in areas that are high interest to ComSoc members. In this issue President's Page, I am pleased introduce Zhisheng Niu, Chair ETC 2022–2023 share with you ongoing activities.