BACKGROUND Despite speculation that clinical information technologies will improve clinical and financial outcomes, few studies have examined this relationship in a large number of hospitals. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of urban hospitals in Texas using the Clinical Information Technology Assessment Tool, which measures a hospital's level of automation based on physician inte...

We present the structure of an analog integrated circuit design laboratory to instruct at both, senior undergraduate and entry graduate levels. The teaching material includes: a laboratory manual with analog circuit design theory, pre-laboratory exercises and circuit design specifications; a reference web page with step by step instructions and examples; the use of mathematical tools for automa...

If we are to facilitate service provision in next generation data centres then we need to tackle a number of challenges which lie at the heart of the automation problem for these data centres, including: scale, reliability, security, and service heterogeneity. In this position paper, we consider the requirements for a solution to these challenges which entail a shift in philosophy from imperati...

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework to inform the understanding, scope and modalities for the Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) 1 to support the resilience of food-insecure people in relation to shocks that affect their livelihoods and food systems. The framework provides a way for the agencies to seek and build complementary alignment across existing agency-specific approaches to suppor...

Industries are the biggest workplace all over the world, also there are large number of peoples involves as a worker and most of them are work as a machine operator. There are many systems developed for industrial work place, some of them, monitors machine processes and some do monitoring and control of machine parameters. Such as speed, temperature, production batch count etc. However there is...

Imagine walking into a store, selecting the items you want, and then walking out—no cashiers, no lines, no crowds. Could this be the future of retail and grocery stores? Because such a frictionless shopping experience is what digital economy companies are designing as they move into traditional economy areas such as shopping. Of the top 10 most valuable companies in the world, 6 are data driven...