There is a rapid advancement in wireless communication technology providing the network services anytime and anywhere. 4G communication systems are being developed to solve the various problems the current communication systems (3.5G, 3G, and 2.5G). The increasing dependency of people on telecommunication resources is pushing even more current technological developments in the mobile world. Wit...

A fundamental limiting factor in the assessment of microbial quality of waters, and especially drinking water, is often the very low number of each organism present. Therefore, it is important to note that most microbiological procedure consists of: concentration/enrichment, detection and quantification (Table 8.1). A consequence of this multi-step approach is that technological advancement of ...

Nowadays, Cloud computing has gained vast attention due to its technological advancement, cost reduction and availability. In the Cloud environments, the suitable scheduling of the received tasks over service provides has become an important and vital problem. The scheduling problem in Cloud environments is an NPhard problem. Therefore, many heuristics have been proposed to solve this problem u...

Processing Real-Time image sequence is now possible because of advancement of technological developments in digital signal processing, wide-band communication, and high-performance VLSI. Recently, the demand for the indoor robots has increased. Therefore, increased opportunities for many people to operate the robots have emerged. However, for many people, it is often difficult to operate a robo...

1Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore Address for Correspondence: Dr Huck Hui Ng, 60 Biopolis Street, #02-01, Genome Building, Singapore 138672. Email: [email protected] The rapid advancement of biomedical research in the recent years was propelled by a series of groundbreaking technological inventions and breakthrough discoveries. In this l...

Upon the technological advancement of production flexibility, supply chain agility, and customer behavioral tracking, many online businesses now develop their customization strategies. In this regard, this study proposes an integrative framework for customization of product information, transaction handling, product attribute, and sales’ service. We are interested in how these customizations af...

We analyze the extent of network externalities for the automated clearinghouse (ACH) electronic payments system using a panel dataset on bank adoption and usage of ACH. We develop three methods. The first examines the clustering of ACH adoption. The second examines the impact of market concentration and the size of competitors on ACH adoption. The third examines the impact of ACH adoption by sm...

Over the last decade, surgeons have witnessed dramatic changes in surgical practice as a result of the introduction of new technological advancement. Some of these changes include refinement of techniques in thyroid cancer surgery. The development of various endoscopic thyroidectomy techniques, the addition of the da Vinci robot, and the use of operative adjuncts in thyroid surgery, such as int...

Primary episodic ataxias are autosomal dominant channelopathies that manifest as attacks of imbalance and incoordination. Mutations in two genes, KCNA1 and CACNA1A, cause the best characterized and account for the majority of identified cases of episodic ataxia. We summarize current knowledge of clinical and genetic diagnosis, genotype-phenotype correlations, pathophysiology and treatment of ep...