Guest Editorial: A Consensus Statement on Nonemergent Medical Transportation Services for Older Persons

Guest Editorial: Reflections on Medical Physics Training

The process of tightening qualifications to sit for ABR certification exams in subspecialties of medical physics is reaching the end of its arc. Predictably, this has sparked renewed hue and cry from individuals who would prefer to be offered lucrative careers without being held to those higher standards, as evidenced by a recent discussion thread on the electronic networking site LinkedIn. I o...

Guest editorial internet proxy services

P ROXIES have become a crucial part of the Internet infrastructure during the past few years. In the traditional client/server model, two applications communicate directly with a clear separation of roles between the client and the server. A proxy extends this model by acting as an intermediary between a client and server. Although the notion of proxies predates the Web, the rapid growth of the...

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Maritime Transportation and Port Logistics

Emergency medical services use for trauma patient transportation to hospital

abstract Introduction: An effort is being made to reduce pre-hospital emergency missions as much as possible without any harm to people and reduce the quality of services. This can be achieved by determining some characters and conditions of patients with their need for emergency services.  The purpose of the present study was to determine the rate of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) use for t...

Guest Editorial: Advances in Web Services Research

Research on Web Services and Services Computing began shortly after the start of the new millennium and with the first major research conference on the subject, the International Conference on Web Services, starting in 2003. Due to the new and practical utility of Web service technology, many researchers began to work in this field. New ideas, applications and related technologies continue to i...