Seamless, integrated care within and between organisations requires a massive change in the way information is currently shared and used, so that information is available to patients, clinicians and NHS staff, where and when they need it. Establishing telehealth and telecare services extend this challenge and these new services will need to be integrated into the wider Information Revolution th...

Several hundred years ago, when production began to shift to factories, the firm became a bureaucracy that organized and planned production and its sale. Most production occurred in the cottage or household or in relatively small, craftsfocused shops. The ascendance of the bureaucracy during this period occurred when people, things, and information moved slowly. Network connections between peop...

Over the last decade, information technology has been championed by policymakers, activists, international bureaucrats, business leaders and intellectuals as a catalyst for social transformation-generating economic growth and development, peace and global cosmopolitanism, personal freedom and individual empowerment. Like the industrial revolution before it, the information technology revolution...

Over the past 30 years there has been an incredible explosion of solid state technology that has allowed for storage and processing of, and interaction with, massive amounts of information. To extend this capability for the Department of Defense, DARPA has launched a major initiative to start the next technology revolution, to establish Integrated Microsystems. These new microsystems will integ...

Dextrous robot hands need to be able to determine the pose of objects to reliably grasp and manipulate them. The first few contacts with an object can be used to provide an initial estimate of this information if we constrain the object to be of a particular class. This paper considers a simple example of exploiting class constraints: finding the axis of an unknown surface of revolution. Three ...

this paper seeks to answer the question whether the constitutional revolution of 1905-1911 in iran was a democratic revolution or social revolution? this discussion has been explained from the view point of the political sociology, relying on the moore's theory. studies indicate that the constitutional revolution in all periods has had the features of democratic revolution for the followin...