This project is aimed at studying environmental pollution using ion-beam analysis (IBA) techniques. The work will focus initially on the analysis of aerosol samples collected around New York State and will eventually be extended to include soil, water, sh, and tree samples. The samples will be analyzed using the IBA techniques of particle-induced X-ray emission, proton elastic scattering, parti...

While some innovative practices have been identified and disseminated, a wider adoption of Web 2.0 tools in Higher Education (HE) teaching practices is not taking place. A study of the drivers and barriers of these technologies in HE outlines that implementing these approaches entails contradictions and conflicts with faculties’ and students’ beliefs and expectations. Based on a critical perspe...

This paper analyzes both the strong points and weak points of OSPF routing protocol from security perspective. On its strong points, we abstract its features of information least dependency and information hiding, which make it very robust and fault resilient, even when facing certain malicious attacks. On its weak points, we take a pragmatic look at various problems centering round secure rout...

RFID is a promising technology in the healthcare area in order to improve patient safety and increase efficiency and reduce costs in the daily healthcare work. This paper analyzes the available literature regarding both interference of RFID systems in medical equipment and the interferences of medical equipment on RFID systems. The conclusion of this analysis is that is necessary to develop sta...

This paper illustrates how radiological information infrastructures emerge in a larger medical network. This is done by focusing on how artifacts are linked together into long chains and how these chains are linked together with the working practices of the personnel at the department. The replacement of medical records and radiological films has shown to be problematic. This study analyzes how...

New generations of smart phone based stereoscopic HMDs (Head Mounted displays) enter the mass market. As in content production for Cinema as well as for 3DTV, human factors and specific viewing conditions must be considered for the creation of new stereoscopic contents on smart phones. This article analyzes the stereoscopic viewing conditions in smart phone based HMDs and demonstrates how the v...

Through a comparison of two communities, this paper addresses village formation in frontier Campeche, Mexico. Mexico's village political unit, the ejido, allows farmers flexibility in deciding who may take up residence in their communities. The paper analyzes how established farmers employ ideas of ethnicity, family, and expectations of social strife to assess the longterm compatibility of newc...

Interoperability and compatibility is the main goal for current GNSS systems. A concept of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is to use all navigation system together to provide better capabilities compared with those that would be achieved relying solely on one service or signal. Compatibility, on the other hand, assures that existing GNSS signal is not degrading each other below certai...