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EGFR: stopping stathmin to start the cycle.

Smart Realisation: Delivering Content Smartly

ed vectors used to control stored content components refers to utilising storage space in a delivery device as part of the pool of media resources which are then used to generate the final media delivery (see later section on ‘Presentation’ for the generation part of this process). If the CD, DVD, smart card or hard disk download consists of a number of smart media components, then the ‘default...

Diabeats: Empowering Diabetics to Live Smartly

The application of mobile technologies in the health and wellness sector presents exciting business and technical opportunities. In particular, diabetes, a worldwide phenomenon continuing to grow at alarming rates, lends itself well to monitoring and control through a mobile application. With the ubiquity of mobile computing and pervasive network effects in today’s social networks, we believe t...

How to communicate smartly with your house?

We are involved in conceiving and implementing man–machine interfaces allowing multimodal and situated dialogue in order to interact with smart digital environments. Several methods are presented depending on how and what the user can say. We describe our approach and some tracks to permit to end-users to communicate more naturally with their house, by speech or by gesture, for instance. Some a...

Mistake-proofing healthcare: Why stopping processes may be a good start

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year as a result of medical errors. The IOM report further states, ‘‘given current knowledge about the magnitude of the problem, the committee believes it would be irresponsible to expect anything less than a 50% reduction in errors over five years’’ (Kohn, Corrigan, &Donaldson, 2000, p. 4). Ten ye...