Adaptive functionality has been applied successfully in many areas ranging from user interfaces to hypermedia systems. Digital libraries, and electronic encyclopaedias in particular, have rarely made use of the power of adaptation, though. In this paper, an approach to include adaptation into encyclopaedic environments is presented. The proposal covers a set of adaptation techniques. They enabl...

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One hundred and thirty-one electronic referrals and 129 paper referrals were reviewed and their content analysed. Four items of demographic data were better recorded in the electronic referrals. Three items of clinical data were significantly better recorded in the paper referrals. The mean global clinical score for clinical relevance was greater for paper referrals than electronic referrals. T...

Over the last ten years, the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago has rebuilt its physical struct~~re from the ground up. During this time it has also embarked on numerous parallel endeavors to fully exploit this rebuilding process electronically. These include the creation of an extremely capable electronic infrastructure, a very highspeed electronic connection to the outside worl...

This paper introduced cooperative caching policies for minimizing the content provisioning cost in Social Wireless Networks(SWNET). SWNETs are formed by mobile devices, such as data enabled phones, electronic book readers etc., sharing common interest in electronic contents, and physically gathering together in public places. Electronic object caching in such SWNETs are shown to be able to redu...

Social wireless networks are the networks in which the nodes are splits in a wireless network for an effective communication. Social wireless networks are common in mobile devices such as data-enabled phones and in some other mobile devices. These are used to share common interests such as to share the electronic content in networks. Electronic object caching in such networks will be reduce the...

BACKGROUND Medical educators, residents and administrators have increasing access to a large quantity of electronic resources. This content can augment and improve our teaching methods but can be difficult to consolidate and present. A multitude of electronic learning management systems are available to help organize and serve this content though never with small residency programs as the targe...

The Copenhagen County is using clinical guidelines in the electronic health record development to provide documentation support, process support and decision support for the healthcare professionals. The electronic health record development is based on three main components: The first component is a national information model. The second component is a common classification system (SNOMED). The...

This article explains the development of a prototype of a portable and a very low-cost electronic nose based on an mbed microcontroller. Mbeds are a series of ARM microcontroller development boards designed for fast, flexible and rapid prototyping. The electronic nose is comprised of an mbed, an LCD display, two small pumps, two electro-valves and a sensor chamber with four TGS Figaro gas senso...

Empowering employees in specialized and general qualifications fields is required for urban management organization (Tehran Municipality). Planning and establishment of comprehensive system of electronic learning is considered the main goal of human resource and educational managers. . This study tried to investigate the feasibility and execution of electronic learning courses for in-service st...