Metastasis is the major cause of treatment failure in cancer patients and of cancer-related deaths. This editorial discusses how cancer metastasis may be better perceived and controlled. Based on big-data analyses, a collection of 150 important pro-metastatic genes was studied. Using The Cancer Genome Atlas datasets to re-analyze the effect of some previously reported metastatic genes-e.g., JAM...

Ageing population and a multitude of neurological and cardiovascular illnesses that cannot be mitigated by medication alone have resulted in a significant growth in the number of patients that require implantable electronic devices. These range from sensors, gastric and cardiac pacemakers, cardioverter defibrillators, to deep brain, nerve, and bone stimulators. Long-term implants present specif...

The religious education of Iranian teenagers as the fourth generation of the Islamic Revolution is so vital that the Supreme Leader dedicated significant parts of the strategic statement on "The Second Phase of Islamic Revolution" to this section of the society as those who build the future. Considering the undeniable role of the media in forming beliefs and values of the audience in the commun...

The topic of cyber warfare is a vast one, with numerous sub topics receiving attention from the research community. We first examine the most basic question of what cyber warfare is, comparing existing definitions to find common ground or disagreements. We discover that there is no widely adopted definition and that the terms cyber war and cyber warfare are not well enough differentiated. To ad...

With the rapid growth in wireless communication, the available spectrum is being congested day by day. For the efficient utilization of the limited spectra, Cognitive Radio System (CRS) plays an important role that has ability to dynamically adapt its parameters and protocols as per the surrounding environment and from its past experiences. Grounded on Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technology, i...

The insurance industry has positioned itself as a basic pillar of our modern society. It will undoubtedly continue to assume that status in the future, even though, under impulse of technological advancement and trends toward globalization and deregulation of financial and real markets, the nature of the insurance business and its value proposition are likely to undergo considerable changes. In...

Event marke t ing i s fas t emerg ing as a promotion catalyst vis-à-vis the traditional marke t ing communica t ion too ls . The increasing corporate disillusionment with traditional media due to increased clutter, escalating costs and reduced efficiency has created opportunities for event marketing. Event marketing allows a company to break through the advertising clutter, and target an audien...

To explain what I mean by " situation awareness " I often use the example of watching the games like Ameri-can football or baseball. Since I have never learned the rules and the strategies of these games, when watching them on TV, although I can clearly see where each player is and where the ball is, I still have no idea of what is going on. Clearly, in this case I cannot claim that I am aware ...

There is a wide variety of types of entrepreneurs, but no one formula for success. However, there are many successful entrepreneurs. Understanding why some entrepreneurs succeed while others fail is important to help future entrepreneurs in their efforts to be ssuccessful. Entrepreneurship is the economic engine driving many nations” economies in the global competitive landscape. Entrepreneursh...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is becoming increasingly important and is being used in business, production, manufacturing and logistics industries. However, RFID technology is still not fully development. This article examines the collection of some of the issues and challenges facing the RFID technology adoption in industrial applications and offers an initial roadmap to view the chall...