This paper provides a summary of the work carried out by BT Research over the last three years while investigating Generic Sensor Network Architectures and Sensor Web Enablement (SWE). An overview of SWE and Complex Event Processing (CEP) is provided. In addition, the SAPHE and BRIDGE projects are discussed, which have served as case studies for the application of SWE specifications or CEP tech...

BACKGROUND The increase in non-communicable disease (NCD) is becoming a global health problem and there is an increasing need for primary care doctors to look after these patients although whether family doctors are adequately trained and prepared is unknown. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine if doctors with family medicine (FM) training are associated with enhanced empathy in consultat...

The power of Web enablement is that geographical boundaries disappear for an enterprise. Thus, an E-commerce initiative can easily become a global E-commerce initiative. Nevertheless, before conducting E-business globally, Web-enabled enterprises must consider an array of international economic, technological, social, and legal issues, which this article addresses.

Publication has become a burning issue among Indian medical fraternity owing to certain academic and professional necessities. The large number of submissions to the anaesthesia journals has resulted in accumulation of too much below average scientific material. A properly written manuscript is the dream of every editor and reviewer. The art of preparing a manuscript can be acquired only by fol...

P aul Samuelson (1969) was once asked by a physicist for a law in economics that was both nontrivial and true. This is a difficult challenge, as many (roughly) true results are in the end rather trivial (for example, demand curves slope down), while many nontrivial results in economics in fact require too much sophistication and rationality on the part of the agents to actually hold true in pra...

The aim of this paper is to establish some new common fixed point theorems for generalized contractive maps in fuzzy metric space by using property (E.A.), common property (E.A.), JCLRST property and CLRS property. Our results improve and extend the results of Chauhan et al. [1] and Sedghi et al. [2] besides several known results. We also furnish an illustrative example in support of our results.

BACKGROUND Attendance for routine asthma reviews is poor. A recent randomised controlled trial found that telephone consultations can cost-effectively and safely enhance asthma review rates; however, concerns have been expressed about the generalisability and implementation of the trial's findings. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of a telephone option as part of a routine structured asthma ...

The unintended effects of curtailing performance regimes are well-documented. Less is known about how street-level workers enabled by hybrid having a control and learning function. aim this study was therefore to conceptualize enablement such regimes. For purpose, an empirical conducted in two frontline contexts characterized regimes: hospital nursing prison guarding. Drawing on 31 interviews, ...