MobiHealth and HealthService24 are two major EU projects targeting the development and validation, with extensive medical trials, of innovative systems and services for mobile health care. Biosignals are measured by sensor devices connected to a wireless Body Area Network. These signals are transmitted reliably and securely over public wireless networks (e.g. GPRS, UMTS) to a remote healthcare ...

Software free trial is a common practice that has both positive and negative effects. On the one hand, it helps firms to exploit the positive network externalities by building up the total user base; on the other hand, it cannibalizes partial demand for the commercial software. The objective of my dissertation is to determine the conditions under which the firms should introduce the free trial ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the characteristics of randomised controlled trials supported by the main non-commercial sources of funding in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 2002. DESIGN Descriptive survey. SETTING Randomised controlled trials funded by the Medical Research Council, NHS research and development programme, Department of Health, Chief Scientist Office in Scotland, and medical res...

Summary results of the assessment of new tools for the generation of reconfigurable screen media (ShapeShifting media) and of eight experimental ShapeShifting screen media productions covering genres including news, documentary and drama, are presented from the project New Millennium, New Media. The new tools for creating interactive and reconfigurable narratives depend upon a Narrative Structu...

The use of Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) as a tool in assessing acquisition and development program risk has steadily increased over the past several years. There is considerable evidence to support the utility of using TRLs as part of a risk assessment, but there are some difficulties in using TRLs with software, especially Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software technology and products....

This paper describes the experience and the results of using the VigilAgent agent methodology to develop surveillance systems. This work is based on the suitability of agent characteristics for developing surveillance systems. It is usual to develop them following an ad-hoc approach instead of using a methodology to guide stakeholders in achieving quality standards expected from commercial soft...

Department of Chemistry, Avinashilingam Deemed University for Women, Coimbatore641 043 ABSTRACT Lipophilicity which plays an important role in research into the structure-activity relationship of drug action has been theoretically predicted for few chromen-2-ones and chromen-2-thiones using commercial software HyperChem 7.0 and an internet computational software ALOGPS 2.1. In the compounds ana...