A cluster of research has been conducted in higher education to investigate the affordances (action possibilities) and the influence information and communication technologies (ICT) may have on students’ learning experiences and outcomes. Such studies have given rise to the implementation of a wide range of educational frameworks with a great deal of empirical evidence on the benefits of using ...

Centric relation can be a confusing term because it continues to evolve in meaning. This article presents a discussion of the historical aspects of centric relation. Guidelines to decide when to use centric relation in clinical dentistry are included.

Manufacturing modeling and simulation has historically been equipment-centric. This equipmentcentric view is an imperfect representation of a realworld factory where Operators’ decision-making processes drive manufacturing. This paper evaluates rudimentary enhancements to a simulation tool allowing for Operator-centric modeling. The results of these experiments indicate a significant improvemen...

By the end of the decade, computing designs will shift from a processor-centric architecture to a memorycentric architecture. At rack scale, we can expect a large pool of non-volatile memory (NVM) that will be accessed by heterogeneous and decentralized compute resources [3, 17]. Such memory-centric architectures will present challenges that today’s processor-centric OSes may not be able to add...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are characterized by their low bandwidth, limited energy, and largely distributed deployment. To reduce the flooding overhead raised by transmitting query and data information, several data-centric storage (DCS) mechanisms are proposed. However, the locations of these data-centric nodes significantly impact the power consumption and efficiency for information que...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is engaged in a mission to unify its software systems towards a “net-centric” vision— where commanders gain advantage by rapidly producing, consuming, and sharing information using service oriented architectures (SOAs). In this paper, we study the cyber survivability of mission-critical net-centric systems, focusing on Ballistic-Missile-Defense (BMD...

BACKGROUND The Proteasix Ontology (PxO) is an ontology that supports the Proteasix tool; an open-source peptide-centric tool that can be used to predict automatically and in a large-scale fashion in silico the proteases involved in the generation of proteolytic cleavage fragments (peptides) METHODS The PxO re-uses parts of the Protein Ontology, the three Gene Ontology sub-ontologies, the Chem...

Embedding the principles of sustainable development and sustainable communities into social housing organisations represents one of the biggest challenges faced by the sector over the last decade. The increasing recognition of the limitations and failings within existing practice has led to calls from both external policy stakeholders and the National Housing Federation for project appraisals t...