This is no learned treatise, but an attempt to discuss the simple methods by which comparatively accurate blood pressure readings may be estimated. Such estimations are not only of great importance in life assurance work, but in the general workaday life of practice: and it is surprising how often this simple procedure is either omitted or performed perfunctorily with consequent unprofitable re...

abstract women as half of the population of each society have important role in societies development. accordingly, many sociologists consider study of women’s empowerment and its influencing factors. present study is to examine the relationship between digital divide and women empowerment. in addition, women empowerment and its dimensions (access and control of resources, participation, gender...

purpose – this paper aims to describe the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide. the paper firstly reviews the existing literature body in this area and then suggests a number of practical solutions. digital divide is a concept which appears in the area of information and communication technology (ict) since 1990 and refers to the existing inequality in accessing to ict among ...

in this paper, the notion of the digital divide has been described, and a few analyzing methods of digital divide have been reviewed. analyzing methods of digital divide are called indices which have different indicators and different formulas for calculation. since data collection for an indicator may be difficult, calculating an index is an essential problem. we collected and calculated some ...

A century after the opening of the Panama Canal, a second inter-oceanic passage is set to be built in Central America, this time in Nicaragua. The ambitious and astronomically expensive project promises to bring economic opportunity to a poor country but it also carries risks to its tropical ecosystems. Will the new waterway ultimately link two oceans or divide a continent? Michael Gross invest...

1 The author would like to thank Rabia Koseoglu and Seydi Sahin in assisting with part of the literature review. Abstract: Several influential people in the popular and academic discourse, especially since the heyday of the Internet boom years, have claimed the arrival of a digital world. A world in which there is universal access to the technologies of and information from the Internet. This a...

Virtualization technology brings great conveniences to cluster and data center management. By using this technique, we can reconstruct a new computing environment quickly and easily. Compared to the traditional cluster environment, load balancing in a virtualized environment needs to address several new problems. This paper focuses on live migration strategies for load balancing in the virtuali...