This paper introduces TweetNaCl, a compact reimplementation of the NaCl library, including all 25 of the NaCl functions used by applications. TweetNaCl is published on Twitter and fits into just 100 tweets; the tweets are available from anywhere, any time, in an unsuspicious way. Distribution via other social media, or even printed on a sheet of A4 paper, is also easily possible. TweetNaCl is h...

In 2012, the business subcommittee of the clinical working group for the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) launched a pilot survey to collect information about the structure and business models of the member integrative centers. Although the survey provided useful insight into the business operations and financial resources needed to start up a center, the ...

A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B contracts and processes, as realized via Web services and other such technologies. Business protocols, an interactionoriented approach for modeling business processes, are formulated in terms of the commitments. Commitm...

Contemporary information systems have to satisfy needs of agile and viable enterprises. They shall include mechanisms of business intelligence, business process management, information technology infrastructure management, and alignment between business and computer systems. The mechanisms for business process handling and computer systems handling are similar, and the mechanisms for their cont...

This paper proposes a new business model framework that allows the design and analysis of value networks for mobile services in a public context. It starts from a validated business model framework that relies on 12 design parameters to evaluate business models on, and expands it by eight parameters to include important aspects that come into play when a public entity (i.e. a city government) b...

The Business Objects Enterprise XI suite are a comprehensive suite of business intelligence (BI) applications for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to operational data to help users and automated systems make fact-driven business decisions. The BusinessObjects Enterprise XI suite is composed of a set of interconnected services and tools, each optimized for specific tasks and o...

This paper identifies and analyses the stages and trends of the adoption of e-business technologies in the IT industry in Taiwan. Among them include current conditions of domain and analysis of the characteristics of the IT industry, implementation strategy of the adoption, enable model, application scope and information infrastructure, information service requirement and model, and the key per...

Suppose there are d diploids and m tetraploids. In the language of [2], there are m models h = 1, h = 2, . . .h = m, where h is the number of hybridizations. Each model has a different number of parameters. The main difficulty with the network prior is that the normalization constants are needed for the different models. Let W be the network topology and node times. The conditional priors π(W |...

The inverse fluidized bed bioreactor was adapted for the axenic culture of heterotrophic microorganisms. Penicillin V synthesized by Penicillium chrysogenum ATCC 28089 was used as a model system for secondary metabolite production. The biomass growth rate was controlled by the rate of nutrient addition while an eroder in the inner draft tube limited the maximum biofilm thickness. When a lactose...

When Procter & Gamble’s CEO Bob McDonald set a strategic goal announcing “We want to be the first company that digitizes from end to end” he turned to CIO and head of Global Business Services Filippo Passerini to lead the transformation. Many CIOs tell us their jobs are expanding and many CEOs tell us they would like their CIOs to do more. In addition to providing highquality and cost-effective...