Various research efforts have focussed on the security and privacy concerns arising from the introduction of smart energy meters. However, in addition to smart metering, the ultimate vision of the smart grid includes bi-directional communication between consumers and suppliers to facilitate certain types of Demand Response (DR) strategies such as demand bidding (DR-DB). In this work we explore ...

The researchers reviewed 1,523 consecutive breast MRI exams performed from Jan. 1, 2003, to June 30, 2005, to identify all lesions initially detected on MRI and assessed as BI-RADS 4 or 5 for which the patient underwent subsequent imaging-guided needle or excisional biopsy. They recorded BI-RADS lesion features for each case and the risk of malignancy was assessed using generalized estimating e...

The work aims to achieve a better understanding of firms’ green strategy, and specifically, in the false strategy called greenwashing, relationships between greenwashing (GW) behaviour intention (BI), how this relationship is affected by word mouth (WOM) corporative social responsability (CRS). A survey was conducted 198 valid complete online questionnaires were collected from users urban mobil...

Workload management for business intelligence (BI) queries poses different challenges than those addressed in the online transaction processing (OLTP) context. The fundamental problem is that the execution times of BI queries can range from milliseconds to hours, and it is difficult to estimate these times accurately. Key challenges raised by this problem are how to identify queries that are no...

AgBase provides annotation for agricultural gene products using the Gene Ontology (GO) and Plant Ontology, as appropriate. Unlike model organism species, agricultural species have a body of literature that does not just focus on gene function; to improve efficiency, we use text mining to identify literature for curation. The first component of our annotation interface is the gene prioritization...

Introduction: Theranostic nanoparticles, which integrate both diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities into one nanoagent, has great promise to ablate more effective tumoral tissue by optimizing and real-time monitoring treatment interventions, as well as monitoring therapeutic response to corresponding effect. Multifunctional theranostic nanoagent based on graphene quantum dots...