Background Health apps are a booming, yet under-regulated market, with potential consumer harms in privacy and health safety. Regulation of the health app market tends to be siloed, with no single sector holding comprehensive oversight. We sought to explore this phenomenon by critically analysing how the problem of health app regulation is being presented and addressed in the policy arena...

Historically, simulation of transient phenomena related to power systems has been carried on using the electromagnetic transients program (EMTP) [1] or one of its variants, such as the alternative transient program (ATP) or electromagnetic transients for dc (EMTDC), which are all based on the trapezoidal integration rule and the nodal approach. These software packages use fixed-step algorithms,...

this paper draws on empirical research conducted in sudan to examine the process of management of it and organizational change in sudanese banking industry (sbi). the study used dual methodology which included quantitative and qualitative techniques and focused on presenting findings on the process of managing and implementing it in the sbi. deductive and inductive data present very strong evid...

In this paper, the essential characteristics of software development projects in the open source environment are described. This model of freely distributed, highly decentralized, democratic software development with little management hierarchy, overhead, or salary compensation has made a revolution in the software industry. These open source projects, like typical commercial software projects,...

The software industry is struggling to understand the meaning and implications of component-based software. A number of different perspectives have emerged concerning the nature of "software components", but one perspective that is particularly strong is that software components will be (or are already) commercial software products. In this paper I argue that if this commercial perspective is v...

it the first U.S. purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant with carbon capture. The 400-MW TCEP plant is a first-of-its-kind integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) poly-generation facility capable of capturing 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO 2) it produces. The $2.4-billion plant was a third round selection under DOE's Clean Coal Powe...

Growing concern about climate change is heightening the need for power systems to be able to operate cost-effectively with high levels of wind energy penetration. In a restructured electricity industry such as in Australia, commercial, regulatory and technical challenges must be solved in an integrated and compatible manner. The Australian National Electricity Market has a number of features th...

After a commercial whaling moratorium was enacted in 1986, whale watching became one of the fastest growing tourism industries worldwide. As whaling is regarded as an activity that is incompatible with whale watching, the possible resumption of commercial whaling has caused an urgent need to investigate the potential negative effects of whaling on the whale-watching industry. We examine the pot...