The incidence and prevalence of cystic echinococcosis have fallen dramatically over the past several decades. Nonetheless, cystic echinococcosis remains a major public health issue in several countries and regions as a result of a reduction of control programmes due to economic problems. Geographic distribution differs by country and region depending on the presence of large numbers of nomadic ...

This paper discusses the outcomes of a research carried out in collaboration the National Institute of Design in India, aimed of understanding appropriate applications for the use of mobile phones as GOV multimedia devices for nomadic users such as commuters and nomadic users in general. This project intends to go beyond the mere broadcast of TV or download of music, video clips, paying special...

The aim of this study is to determine the serum copper (Cu) concentration found in Iranian Raeini cashmere goats in different seasonal and climatic conditions. Twenty four male (6 to 18 months old) and 48 female (6 to 18 and 18 to 30 months old) Raeini goats were selected from the station, rural, and nomadic flocks. The average Cu concentrations among the male and female goats were 0.5 ± 0.04 a...

In ubiquitous application scenarios, the information (processing) needs of nomadic users often cannot be satisfied by a set of pre-installed processes like in common workflow systems. Instead, nomadic users require ad-hoc processes that are unique (personalized) and usually do not appear in the same way more than once. As a consequence, ubiquitous applications also require a sophisticated user ...

Orchestrating services in nomadic or mobile ad hoc networks is not without a challenge, since these environments are built upon volatile connections. Services residing on mobile devices are exposed to (temporary) network failures, which must be considered the rule rather than the exception. This paper proposes a dedicated workflow language built on top of an ambient-oriented programming languag...

Chimpanzee and hunter-gatherer intergroup aggression differ in important ways, including humans having the ability to form peaceful relationships and alliances among groups. This paper nevertheless evaluates the hypothesis that intergroup aggression evolved according to the same functional principles in the two species-selection favoring a tendency to kill members of neighboring groups when kil...

M-learning (i.e. mobile learning) is a field of elearning that provides learners learning environments using mobile technology. In this context, learning can take place anywhere and anytime, in open and distance learning. Depending on the type of technology it may be done through software called nomadic (i.e. prepared to mobility). Among these technologies, there are those composed of digital i...

Following the roadmaps of (inter)national committees, highly automated driving will be available in the next decade in production vehicles. This technology allows the driver to do some other tasks while driving and to remain only as a fallback in situations the automation is not capable to handle. This study tested if nomadic devices, that drivers might use while driving highly automated, can b...

The trend is towards having smaller and smaller mobile devices, also called small-footprint devices, allowing nomadic users to access the same services as with the static computers from virtually anywhere and at any time. The idea of having software agents running on smallfootprint mobile devices sounds an attractive way of delivering services for nomadic users. One of the biggest problems is t...

System modeling, analysis and visualization are becoming a common practice for the design of distributed intelligent systems since the wide adoption of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). However, UML cannot describe important behavioral properties such as context awareness as required for ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we present Context Aware UML Sequence diagrams (CA UML-S), an experi...