Developments in religion and spirituality in the world of mobile technology seem to flourish with the increasing of thousand applications that assisting daily spirituality practices and experience. At the same time, world scenario shows drastically increasing number of older people worldwide. In conjunction with the intertwined scenario between increasing number of elderly and rapid development...

While Agile methods were originally introduced for small, tightly coupled teams, leaner ways of working are becoming a practical method to run entire enterprises. As the emphasis of user experience work has inherently been on the early phases before starting the development, it also needs to be adapted to the Agile way of working. To improve the current practices in Agile user experience work, ...

Corporate websites are often used to provide service to both external and internal clients (i.e., customers and employees). Thus, corporate websites have become an important communication channel, for which anywhere and anytime access with an outstanding user experience is simply expected. Because of this, designing positive web experiences can have a significant impact on reducing costs and in...

1875-9521/$ see front matter 2011 International doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2011.03.009 In this introduction to the special issue of Entertainment Computing on the new TV landscape, we introduce interactive television (iTV) research as one of the pillars in the field of entertainment computing. Although entertainment computing has been associated mainly with video-games, there is also more than a coup...

Computing is always going through some kind of revolution, with each generation being smaller, faster and more powerful than the last. We’ve finally reached a point where devices are small enough to be easily carried in a pocket, powerful enough to be truly useful, and connected enough to be relevant. The dominant question now becomes: “What can you do with it?”And “Can you make it work?” The d...

The primary treatment of thyroid carcinoma is surgery and the outcome depends on its extent. The post-operative management alternatives in thyroid carcinoma include thyroid hormone, radio-iodine ablation (I-131 Na), external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and occasionally adjuvant chemotherapy. This retrospective study analyzes the managements of 153 patients (102, 51), age range 10-96 yea...

The book ‘Developing expertise through experience’consists of twenty chapters written by language educators. Alan Maley has edited the book. The writers of the chapters have written their stories and experiences about learning English and being an Educator with regard to the notion of ‘sense of plausibility’ defined by Prabhu. Prabhu explains that plausibility in pedagogy is teachers’ intuition...

Frank A. W. Verreck, Tjitske de Boer, Marieke Hoeve, Jaap T. van Dissel, Ozden Sanal, Masashi Kurimoto, and Tom H. M. Ottenhoff Departments of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion and Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Children’s Hospital, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; and Fujisaki Institute, Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Fujisaki, ...

Background: Bacillus anthracis may usually cause three forms of anthrax: inhalation, gastrointestinal and cutaneous. The gastrointestinal (GI) anthrax develops after eating contaminated meat. Thus, in this paper were report 5 cases of intestinal anthrax. Case Presentation: We report a case series of intestinal anthrax, with history of consumption of raw or poorly cooked liver of sheep. One pati...

BACKGROUND Breast augmentation is an elective surgery used to increase the size of the breast in females. This study was undertaken to determine the breast augmentation in Pakistani females. METHODS From 2006 to 2011, 43 female patients who underwent breast augmentation via infra-mammary, periareolar, trans-umbilical and fat transfer were enrolled. For augmentation, saline-filled or gel-fill...