Enterprise architecture frameworks sometimes provide an additional architectural layer between businessoriented artefact types (e. g., business processes, organizational units) and technical artefact types (e. g., software components, data structures). This "integration" or "alignment" layer is intended to bridge the gap, which results from different life cycles, different ownerships, and other...

The challenge of moving a decentralized, fragmented, paper-based healthcare system to an interconnected, automated, networked world is not merely technological. Digital right management (DRM) technologies can be leveraged as a tool to protect the privacy of electronic health records (EHRs) via encryption, access control, etc. However, the deployment of DRM technology needs to address special re...

Grouping local elements into a holistic percept, also known as spatial binding, is crucial for meaningful perception. Previous studies have shown that neurons in early visual areas V1 and V2 can signal complex grouping-related information, such as illusory contours or object-border ownerships. However, relatively little is known about higher-level processes contributing to these signals and med...

in the present era, the cultural heritage of the nations is taken into consideration, and has found great significance in several aspects. this importance has enforced the nations to enact their particular laws in cultural heritage domain; among the rest, the ownership of historic-cultural monuments. these laws lead to the restriction of private ownerships in many cases. in the first glance, it...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy sharing among neighboring households is a promising solution to mitigating the difficulties of renewable power (such as solar Photovoltaics (PV)) penetration on grid. Until now, there still lack study impacts future climate change P2P trading performances. The will cause variances in production and further lead changes economic performances with various uses affect dec...

This study utilizes forest inventory and climate attributes as the basis for estimating models of wildfire risk associated biomass loss (tree mortality) then demonstrates how they can be applied in calculating CO2 emissions related to incidence wildfires from U.S. forests. First, we use full set over 150,000 FIA plots national climatic parameters estimate annual probability occurrence live tree...

Corporate social responsibility is the expression as one of media to show concern and corporate activities for people in area. So that feel safe havens use production companies. This will affect image so indirectly have an effect on benefit be obtained. Based this matter research examines influence company ownership structure reflected institutional ownership, management foreign extensive expre...

In southern Benin, the rapid growth of demographics and need for fishery products have forced public managers to adopt various management measures in face anti-ecological methods used by fishers; however, these strategies are often formulated independent from context. These not remained without consequence on daily lives fishers. This paper examines factors influencing fishers’ individual perce...

BACKGROUND A global budgeting system helps control the growth of healthcare spending by setting expenditure ceilings. However, the hospital global budget implemented in Taiwan in 2002 included a special provision: drug expenditures are reimbursed at face value, while other expenditures are subject to discounting. That gives hospitals, particularly those that are for-profit, an incentive to incr...

This study examined the performance of diabetes care measures in Taiwan and evaluated the influencing factors for professional accountability. We analyzed the year 2001 claims data from National Health Insurance (NHI) program in Taipei Branch. Professional accountability for diabetes care was measured by the adherence for laboratory monitor, either from patient- or hospital-viewpoint. Identifyi...