Smart City and Well-Being: Opinions by the Guest Editors

Guest editors' introduction: IT in Smart Cities

Guest Editors

S P E C T R U M . D I A B E T E S J O U R N A L S . O R G L aurie Quinn, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, CDE, is a clinical professor, and Cynthia Fritschi, PhD, RN, CDE, is an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Illinois College of Nursing in Chicago. Dr. Quinn has maintained an ongoing research program focusing on improving the health of people with diabetes and reducing the burden of di...

From the Guest Editors

The dependability of systems is known as the reliance that can justifiably be placed on the service the system delivers. Dependability has become an important aspect of computer systems since everyday life increasingly depends on them, which has left us vulnerable to their potential malfunction. The causes to these malfunctions can potentially be introduced in every step of their development, d...

Letter from the Guest Editors

The simple fact that this special issue is being published suggests that “we've come a long way, baby.” From obesity, vitamin D, and dietary intervention to interventional cardiology and maternal effects on cardiovascular risk in offspring, this issue includes more than a conventional discussion of heart disease in women and differentiates the dogma from the data. Of course, much remains to be ...

Preface of the guest editors

The study of probabilistic models for random events, which are not simultaneously measurable or unsharp, requires new approaches to the modeling of uncertainty. The need for such an alternative theory comes back to the thirties of the twentieth century, since the classical (Kolmogorovian) probability theory could not explain events occurring in quantum physics. Nowadays, there are several scien...