The remarkable proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) – which has had dramatic economic and social impact in our society – has been enabled by the steady advancement of integrated circuit (IC) technology following Moore’s Law, which states that the number of components (transistors) on an IC “chip” doubles every two years. Increasing the number of transistors on a chip ...

Continual medical training has been regarded as necessary case for preserving and promoting skills of graduates of medicine on which basis continual curricula of medical society are being executed in order to promote job knowledge and skills and improve provision of health-therapeutic services in the country. Now, after some years of continual curricula commencement, this question about effe...

The cell phone is one of the potential Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in agricultural development especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Thus, this paper deals with the farmers’ communication with the agricultural extension agents using mobile phone. The study was conducted in Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. Data were collected from a sample of 110 farmers while b...

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then we would not expect to see any evidence of it for US establishments located abroad. This paper shows in f...

In this study, asset management strategies in power distribution systems are investigated chronologically based on short-term, mid-term and long-term time scales. New strategies and their interrelation and coincidence in different time scales are discussed. The central role of Information Technologies (IT) in asset management is emphasized with supportive examples.

The radical and transformative developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) offer unprecedented opportunities to promote cancer control and enhance population and individual health. However, the current context in which these technologies are being deployed--where cancer incidence and mortality and communication are characterized by inequalities among different racial/ethnic...

The advancement of information and communications technology, especially the Internet, has created an opportunity to improve the administrative efficiency and service quality in governments of many nations. However, due to the lack of communication security services, sensitive documents could not be transmitted securely over open networks using off-the-shelf software. Digital signature is by fa...