As in many western countries, Denmark’s demographic changes and the organizational and financial changes of the Danish healthcare are challenging the levels of provided healthcare and point towards the establishment of telemedicine as means of patient support, diagnosis, and treatment. However, telemedical solutions, despite the benefits they provide, are faced with a number of challenges that ...

The paper is aimed at developing an ecosystem that can be used within the domain of circular economy on foundation Industry 4.0 technologies. study emphasizes importance as a crucial element in development economic ecosystem. comprised business model, strategies, and resources capabilities supported by framework. This adopted literature review analysis case studies mythology to analyse synthesi...

Large terrestrial carnivores are important ecological components and prominent flagship species, but are often extinction prone owing to a combination of biological traits and high levels of human persecution. This study combines phylogenetic and functional diversity evaluations of global and continental large carnivore assemblages to provide a framework for conservation prioritization both bet...

Demand for more advanced Web applications is the driving force behind Web browser evolution. Recent requirements for Rich Internet Applications, such as mashing-up data and background processing, are emphasizing the need for building and executing Web applications as a coordination of browser execution contexts. Since development of such Web applications depends on cross-context communication, ...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have received much praise and are increasingly perceived as a promising tool to ensure the protection of global ecosystems as well as being able to help alleviate poverty in areas rich in ecosystem services. Given current trends, the scale of payments is likely to grow, creating new circumstances within which ecosystem services will be managed. In this dyna...

Aims: Despite the current interest in services provided by ecosystems and the role of biodiversity, the relationship among human attitudes, biodiversity and ecosystem services has hardly been investigated. Moreover, few studies have examined attitudes toward nature in cross-cultural comparisons. This study investigates the attitudes of Chinese and Swiss people, both environmental experts and la...

The methodology of designing ubiquitous learning environments has recently started to attract considerable attention in various disciplines. From the viewpoint of researchers of educational technology, this paper proposes a new framework of a learner development ecosystem for designing a ubiquitous learning environment, which is built on the theory of social constructivism proposed by Vygotsky,...