In April 2013, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Centre for Security Science (CSS) initiated a project with the City of Kelowna to determine the feasibility of integrating local situational awareness from a Computer Aided Dispatch system into the national Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS). MASAS enables a system-of-systems collection of interoperable systems [1] [2]...

Purpose – The global textile-fashion industry is resource inefficient thus requiring higher productservice systems (PSS) intervention. Further, insight of how PSS extends corporate responsibility is rather limited; knowledge of which may contribute towards increased PSS viability. The purpose of this paper is to explore how companies operating with used-clothing PSS extend their responsibilitie...

Similarity comparisons of the form “Is object a more similar to b than to c?” form a useful foundation in several computer vision and machine learning applications. Unfortunately, an embedding of n points is only uniquely specified by n triplets, making collecting every triplet an expensive task. In noticing this difficulty, other researchers investigated more intelligent triplet sampling techn...

As a by-product of its "cyberspace" status, electronic commerce is global, encompassing a whole range of B2C relationships which need to be approached with solutions provided at a local level while remaining viable when applied to global issues. Today, the European Union seems to be endowed with a reliable legal framework for consumer protection. A question which remains, however, is enforcemen...

abstract background : hypertension is one of the most crucial health problems and most common chronic disease in developed and underdeveloped countries, which is called silent killer. usually diagnosis happens suddenly. despite this fact that is a preventable and treatable condition but without treatment it leads to serious and life threatening complications (such as heart, kidney and brain des...