Recently, the Bitcoin-underlying blockchain technology gained prominence as a solution that offers the realization of distributed trust-free systems, where economic transactions are guaranteed by the underlying blockchain. We are still at an early stage and thus require a deeper understanding of how the blockchain potentials can be realized, and what are the opportunities and challenges in so d...

SUMMARY Digital earth and e-government have significant impacts on the development of different land information systems in China in the recent decade. There was a tide of building up electronic land databases upon the traditional urban cadastral and land information management systems in wealthy cities. Most of these systems lack coordination, inter-operation, data sharing or exchange function...

Multinational business expansion and competition have escalated in the recent years, particularly in Eastern Europe and the third world. Tremendous opportunities, therefore, have been created for many companies and formidable hindrances have been amassed against others. Business failure rates among these multinational enterprises have alarmingly increased beyond expectation. So has their IT imp...

A well constructed thesaurus is recognized as a valuable source of semantic information for various applications, especially for Information Retrieval. The main hindrances to using thesaurus-oriented approaches are the high complexity and cost of manual thesauri creation. This paper addresses the problem of automatic thesaurus construction, namely we study the quality of automatically extracted...

Discharge planning is a complex process and ideally begins early in the patient stay. Despite evidence about the importance of discharge readiness, there is limited literature about the patient's view during this transition. The goal of this study was to explore patient perspectives about the discharge process, including multidisciplinary rounds. Multidisciplinary rounding is a process where ca...

Advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of novel fluorescent probes called quantum dots. Quantum dots have revolutionalized the processes of tagging molecules within research settings and are improving sentinel lymph node mapping and identification in vivo studies. As the unique physical and chemical properties of these fluorescent probes are being unraveled, new potential method...

The CCR5 chemokine receptor acts as a co-receptor for HIV-1 viral entry. Here we report the 2.7 angstrom-resolution crystal structure of human CCR5 bound to the marketed HIV drug maraviroc. The structure reveals a ligand-binding site that is distinct from the proposed major recognition sites for chemokines and the viral glycoprotein gp120, providing insights into the mechanism of allosteric inh...

In distributed association rule mining algorithm, one of the major and challenging hindrances is to reduce the communication overhead. Data sites are required to exchange lot of information in the data mining process which may generates massive communication overhead. In this paper we propose an association rule mining algorithm which minimizes the communication overhead among the participating...

The Lucania – Medici in Rete (LuMiR) project aims to support the changing environment in the Italian National Health Systems, embodying a shift from organisation-centric to patient-centric healthcare service delivery in the Basilicata Region. The project main objective is to foster collaborative, crossorganizational and patient-centric healthcare processes, with a suite of shared e-services sup...

The neutron-rich nuclei Nb and Zr have been populated using in-flight fission of a U beam at 345 MeV/nucleon at the RIBF facility. A T1/2 = 150(30) ns isomer at 313 keV has been identified in Nb for the first time. The low-lying levels in Nb have been also populated following the β-decay of Zr. Based on the difference in feeding pattern between the isomeric and β decays, the decay scheme from t...