The opportunities that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer to any industry considering the transformation of products and places into smart, connected system have stimulated academics and professionals from every discipline to explore and collaborate in concrete realizations of this vision. This paper elaborates on the relevance of considering research from different discipli...

Dengue is a public health problem in the tropics and subtropics. There are several vaccine candidates in clinical development. However, there may be gaps in the new vaccine introduction after vaccine licensure before it becomes available in developing countries. In anticipation of the first dengue vaccine candidate to be licensed, Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI) and, its predecessor, Pediatric ...

Creation, maintenance, and update of digital twins are costly time-consuming mechanisms. The required effort can be optimized with the use LiDAR technologies, which support process collecting data related to spatial information such as location, geometry, position. Sharing in multi-stakeholder environments is hindered due competition, confidentiality, security requirements. Multi-stakeholder fa...

A recent trend of transitioning to multicore architectures in the mainstream market segments creates significant challenges for programming systems. The market need for creating portable multithreaded applications that exploit high performance of chip multiprocessors is not easily supported by existing programming models and languages, compiler technology, performance analysis and testing tools...

Many sensor networks have been deployed to monitor Earth's environment, and more will follow in the future. Environmental sensors have improved continuously by becoming smaller, cheaper, and more intelligent. Due to the large number of sensor manufacturers and differing accompanying protocols, integrating diverse sensors into observation systems is not straightforward. A coherent infrastructure...

BACKGROUND The widely used patient enablement instrument (PEI) is sometimes contrasted against measures of patient satisfaction as being a more objective measure of consultation quality, in that it is less likely to be positively influenced by fulfilling pre-existing expectations for specific consultation outcomes (such as prescriptions or referrals). However the relationship between expectatio...

I.1. Physical motivation. From [St]: consider a function T (x) as representing the value of a physical variable at a particular point x in space. Is this a realistic thing to do? What can you measure? Suppose T (x) represents temperature at a point x in a room. You can measure the temperature with a thermometer, placing the bulb at the point x. Unlike the point, the bulb has nonzero size, so wh...

The article analyses the major aspects related to transformation of financial and legal status Bank Russia in connection with creation on its basis public relations mega-regulator field finance, mainstreaming digital enablement, introduction treasury payment system other changes Russian legislation. authors focus necessity sectoral identification personality while governing concerning issue, ac...