Healthcare services available these days deploy high technology to satisfy both internal and external customers by continuously improving various quality parameters. Quality improvement in healthcare services is a complex and multidimensional task. Although various quality management tools are routinely deployed for identifying quality issues in healthcare delivery, there is absence of an integ...

Background: Outsourcing is considered as one of the tools for organizational development and promotion of productivity by managers. In recent years, outsourcing of healthcare services has become significant. The aim of this study was to identify the most important factors influencing the decision making of outsourcing healthcare services.    Methods: This study is a combined study. F...

Digital technologies are changing how we practice and experience healthcare. This review focusses on the role of eHealth technologies in facilitating patient participation within the healthcare process. The central claim of this paper is that interactive, web-based technologies allow individuals to become more active participants in the healthcare process, thereby opening up new perspectives an...

The Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) approach to perception processing, pursued by prior authors including Jeff Hawkins and Itamar Arel, is expanded to encompass more abstract semantic forms of HTM, and to include separate, coupled hierarchies for perception, motor control and goal management. No experimental evidence or detailed calculations are presented; this is merely a conceptual paper d...

Holographic data storage systems (HDSS) have been a promising and very appealing technology since the first laser developments in the sixties. Impact of ongoing advances in the various components needs to be explored in its specific application to HDSS. In this sense, continuous progress is being produced in spatial light modulator (SLM) technology where parallel-addressed liquid crystal on sil...

This paper investigates the problem of deriving white box performance models of Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) systems. The proposed model targets a popular implementation of HTM, i.e., the one integrated in Intel’s Xeon (Haswell family) processors, and focuses on capturing the dynamics of two key mechanisms: the concurrency control scheme and the management of transactional meta-data in t...

Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) is still largely unknown by the pattern recognition community and only a few studies have been published in the scientific literature. This paper reviews HTM architecture and related learning algorithms by using formal notation and pseudocode description. Novel approaches are then proposed to encode coincidence-group membership (fuzzy grouping) and to derive t...

Good governance (GG) is an important concept that has evolved as a set of normative principles for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to strengthen the functional capacity of their public bodies, and as a conditional prerequisite to receive donor funding. Although much is written on good governance, very little is known on how to implement it. This paper documents the process of developin...