This work proposes p-Learning grid, a service-oriented approach, based on a pervasive learning grid, for solving difficulties associated with the sharing of learning resources distributed on different e-Learning platforms. The p-Learning grid not only enables collaboration and effective reuse of learning objects but also supports learning anytime, anywhere. Since the WSDL of web services remain...

Modern services consist of interconnected components, e.g., microservices in a service mesh or machine learning functions pipeline. These can scale and run across multiple network nodes on demand. To process incoming traffic, components have to be instantiated traffic assigned these instances, taking capacities, changing demands, Quality Service (QoS) requirements into account. This challenge i...

BACKGROUND Health professionals from high-income countries are increasingly becoming involved in international service-learning trips in low and low/middle-income countries. While much has been written about the ethics and curricular guidelines related to such endeavors, scant attention has been paid to the attitudes with which trainees and clinicians enter into or return from them. In this ess...