In 2000 the United States launched the National Nanotechnology Initiative and, along with it, a well-defined set of goals for nanomedicine. This Perspective looks back at the progress made toward those goals, within the context of the changing landscape in biomedicine that has occurred over the past 15 years, and considers advances that are likely to occur during the next decade. In particular,...

A number of studies have questioned the validity of the Quickprop algorithm and the activation function derivative offset as appropriate methods of speeding backpropagation style training. This paper follows on from those results with a practical study using generated data sets. The generation method is briefly presented, along with the results of comparisons which indicate, at least on these d...

Remote health care is currently one of the most promising solutions to ensure a high level treatment outcome, cost-efficiency and sustainability healthcare systems worldwide. Even though research on remote can be traced back early days Internet, recent COVID-19 has necessitated further improvement in existing with invigorated technologies. In this article we delve into state-of-the-art latest t...

The purpose of his paper is to identify and briefly discuss some important areas where (additional) research is needed to be able to within 5-20 years realize the four “example-visions” presented in www.netpack-europe.org, Visions Lab: Augmented Reality, Personal Liberator, Clever Paper and Healthy Freedom. In total these visions embrace very diverse technology areas, many of those extending ou...

for centuries, herbal drugs have been the only accessible resource for treatment of pain and passions. today, despite remarkable progress and development of synthetic drugs, medicinal plants and their derived drugs are used massively. so that, in some countries medicinal plants is inseparable from drugs and treatment systems. more ever, their marketing and economical aspects are more flourishin...