Digital Learning: Evolution to Revolution

PACS: A Guide to the Digital Revolution

This multi-authored book covers the major topics in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and provides valuable information in understanding the technologic advancements that have resulted in the digital revolution in the practice of radiology. The thorough and comprehensive analysis of the various PACS concepts and their relationships in forming the digital radiology department in...

Pathways to Sustainability: Evolution or Revolution?

The purposes of this chapter is to delve more deeply into the processes and determinants of technological, organisational, and social innovation and to discuss their implications for selecting instruments and policies to stimulate the kinds of innovation necessary for the transformation of industrial societies into sustainable ones. Sustainable development must be seen as a broad concept, incor...

Revolution to Evolution and Back Again.

Evolution to Revolution A review on Bioinformatics

This review is an introduction to the field of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary subject devoted to the in-silico analysis of biological information. It requires the help of other natural sciences. In this review we study the developments of bioinformatics. A new definition to the subject is given. The centres of the subject are described. The aims and the future directions ...

Nanosciences : evolution or revolution ?

In miniaturised objects fabricated by modern technology the smallest linear size may be of a few nanometers. In the field of microelectronics, the advantages of such a miniaturisation are huge (increased complexity and reliability, reduced costs). The technology is now approaching the limits where further size reduction will be impossible, except for very novel techniques such as molecular elec...