The ever-growing amount of documents (electronic or other) has increased the value of abstracts, and abstracting systems and services, as instruments for concentrating and supplying relevant information. Ongoing research in different disciplines, with abstracting as the common subject matter, points to the usefulness of the paradigm concept. This perspective would provide the coherence necessar...

The problems of introducing unvironmcntal sound into the compositional process arc discussed, including its acoustic character, syntactic orgmization, contextuaIly based meaning,and resultant listening patterns. Gaps in traditional discipIinary approaches in dealing with environmental sound arc identified, and an acoustic communicational model is proposed as an interdisciplinary alternative. Th...

We first propose an unbiased consensus algorithm in wireless networks via random broadcast, by which all the nodes tend to the initial average in mean almost surely. The innovation of the algorithm lies in that it can work in any connected topology, in spite of the possible collisions from simultaneous data arriving at receivers in a shared channel. Based on the consensus algorithm, we propose ...

This paper proposes a global escape mechanism which can handle unexpected or unwanted conditions changing the default execution of distributed communicational flows, preserving compatibility of the multiparty conversations. Our escape is realised by a collection of asynchronous local exceptions which can be thrown at any stage of the communication and to any subsets of participants in a multipa...

This article examines the evidence available on obstacles and facilitating factors for the socioprofessional integration of internationally educated nurses (IENs) and tries to generate best practices concerning their workforce integration. In the nursing shortage context, more and more attention is given to IEN recruitment. Still, IENs' integration experiences into their new environment are str...

In this paper we present the novel idea of computing near the edge of IOT architecture which enhances the inherent efficiency while computing complex applications. This concept is termed as mist computing. We believe this computing will bring about an massive revolution in future computing technologies. instead of thrusting the control responsibility to gateways while data transmission the cont...

The topic of energy therapies is prompted by the increasing attention of healthcare practitioners and consumers to Eastern philosophies and ancient healing practices. This article includes a conceptual framework of quantum physics principles providing the basis of interpretation of energetic phenomena, along with the exploration of theoretical concepts involving energy as a communicational netw...