General medical practices’ in Australia are vulnerable to information security threats and insecure practices. It is becoming well accepted in the healthcare environment that information security is both a technical and a human endeavour, and that the human behaviours, particularly around integration with healthcare workflow, are key barriers to good information security practice. This paper de...

The notion of "health" as the absence of disease has been replaced by a more holistic view based on the concept of "total wellbeing" and its interrelated physiological, psychological, and social components. This approach has radically changed biomedical research, both in terms of experimental methodology and in addressing ethical issues such as animal welfare. The present work focuses on the en...

Irwin Altman’s popular theory of privacy as a normalizing, dynamic, dialectic process regulating self-environment interactions is integrated with observations and conceptions of privacy drawn from ubicomp, law, architecture, sociology, and psychology. The result is a unified, holistic and comprehensive vocabulary for discussing privacy issues in the design of ubicomp systems, specifically ubiqu...

the increase in water demand and its services due to population growth and the raising of the standards of living, health, and hygiene along with the limitation of water resources, droughts, and climate change has attracted water specialists and planners to explore the use of unconventional water resources, such as sewage and saline waters. moreover, industrial and rural wastewater disposal and...

This concept paper intends to define four new paradigms for improving nutrition research. First, the consequences of applying a reductionist versus a holistic approach to nutrition science will be discussed. The need for a more focused preventive nutrition approach, as opposed to a curative one, will then be presented on the basis of the 'healthy core metabolism' concept. This will lead us to p...

The article intends to explore and estimate the possible pedagogical advantages and potential of cloud computing technology with aim to increase organizational level, availability and quality of ICT-based learning tools and resources. Holistic model of a specialist is proposed and the problems of development of a system of methodological and technological support for elaboration of cloud-based ...

This article provides a survey of published literature on technology developed to support people at the early stages of dementia during night time. Studies to date have focussed on Assistive Technology that can address monitoring in a sensor enriched home environment or provide location detection as a safety net. Additionally, studies have promoted therapy (music, reminiscing, lighting or menta...

I f fast-paced, high requirements volatility, and uncertainty characterize your development environment, and you can’t figure out how to succeed, then Adaptive Software Development by James Highsmith can help. It offers an innovative approach grounded in the theory of complex adaptive systems, and it’s both well researched and timely. Its real attraction, however, is that it provides a holistic...

Adolescents learn health behaviors in a sociocultural context of community, family, and peers. Although many adolescents engage in behaviors that protect and promote health, others engage in behaviors that threaten or compromise their health. The purpose of this review article is to provide an overview of health-risk behaviors and the morbidities and mortalities of adolescence that are related ...