We report a novel subxiphoid video pericardioscopy approach for epicardial mapping that allows direct visualization of the epicardium with minimal use of fluoroscopy. The FLEXview system (Boston Scientific Cardiac Surgery, Santa Clara, CA), which is capable of a free navigation around the heart owing to its flexible neck, was inserted into the pericardial space through a small subxiphoid incisi...

Science mapping aims to build bibliometric maps that describe how specific disciplines, scientific domains, or research fields are conceptually, intellectually, and socially structured. Different techniques and software tools have been proposed to carry out science mapping analysis. The aim of this article is to review, analyze, and compare some of these software tools, taking into account aspe...

The considerations of global sustainability have dramatically increased the importance remanufacturing process. Many scholars started focusing on this vital area from both a management and an engineering point view. Previous studies aimed to categorize using traditional review approaches, smaller body literature mostly managerial aspects remanufacturing. Our paper is only study for which tech-m...

Background Integrated care (IC) is the cornerstone of sustainable development medical and health system. A thorough examination existing scientific literature on IC essential for assessing present state knowledge this subject. This review seeks to offer an overview evidence-based knowledge, pinpoint gaps related IC, identify areas requiring further research. Methods Data were retrieved from Web...

This paper briefly describes the most relevant current approaches to the implementation of scientific models of consciousness. Main aspects of scientific theories of consciousness are characterized in sight of their possible mapping into artificial implementations. These implementations are analyzed both theoretically and functionally. Also, a novel pragmatic functional approach to machine cons...

The development of scientific software is usually carried out by a scientist who has little professional training as a software developer. Concerns exist that such development produces low-quality products, leading to low-quality science. These concerns have led to recommendations and the imposition of software engineering development processes and standards on the scientists. This paper utiliz...

Organizations, through knowledge management, seek to obtain competitive advantage from acquiring and generating knowledge. The use of social media has become so frequent that it turned into an organizational resource. One the main reasons for in organizations is management. Over last two decades, several works analysed However, was not identified research analyzed these concepts shows findings....

The work described in this paper is a contribution to the problems of managing in data-intensive scientific applications. First, we discuss scientific workflows and motivate there use in scientific applications. Then, we introduce the concept of cooperative processes and describe their interactions and uses in a flexible cooperative workflow system called Bonita. Finally, we propose an approach...