With today’s ubiquity of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, more and more businesses develop and use mobile applications. Multiple platforms including Android and iOS form the market of mobile devices, so it can be important to be able to deliver software for more than one platform. Vendor-supported SDKs are feature-rich but incompatible with other platforms. We compared a number of...

Given that understanding the sociocultural dimensions underlying a patient's health values, beliefs, and behaviors is critical to a successful clinical encounter, cross-cultural curricula have been incorporated into undergraduate medical education. The goal of these curricula is to prepare students to care for patients from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, and to recognize and appropria...

In recent years a huge amount of research effort and funding has been devoted to the area of semantic web services (SWS). This has resulted in the proposal of numerous competing approaches to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for web services using semantic annotations. However, despite of a wealth of theoretical work, too little effort has been spent towards th...

Nowadays, a vast amount of data is generated and collected every moment and often, this data has a spatial and/or temporal aspect. To analyze the massive data sets, big data platforms like Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark emerged and extensions that take the spatial characteristics into account were created for them. In this paper, we analyze and compare existing solutions for spatial d...

With the growing demand of Object Oriented paradigm in the development of large scale information system, a "good" requirements engineering framework has become essential for analysis of requirements and related models for such system. Though various proposals of requirements engineering frameworks are exist in the literatures but they are varied in the specification mechanism of the ...

Desktop grid systems have already established their identity in the area of distributed systems. They are well suited for High Throughput Computing especially for Bag-ofTasks applications. In desktop grid systems, idle processing cycles and memory of millions of users (connected through internet or through any other communication mechanism) can be utilized but the workers / hosts machines not u...

Existing compliance management frameworks (CMFs) offer a multitude of compliance management functionalities for the modeling of specific norms for specific domain and compliance checking of normative requirements. This makes difficult for enterprises to decide on a framework suitable for their compliance requirements. Making a decision on the suitability requires a deep understanding of the fun...

Unmanned aircraft have decreased the cost required to collect remote sensing imagery, which has enabled researchers to collect high-spatial resolution data from multiple sensor modalities more frequently and easily. The increase in data will push the need for semantic segmentation frameworks that are able to classify non-RGB imagery, but this type of algorithmic development requires an increase...

Although obesity rates among US children have increased during the past 3 decades, effective public policies have been limited, and the quest for workable solutions raises ethical questions. To address these concerns, in 2010, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened an expert panel to consider approaches to the ethics problems related to interventions for childhood obesity. On the basis of ...