Many governments are considering adopting the smart city concept in their cities and implementing big data applications that support smart city components to reach the required level of sustainability and improve the living ...

Current literature supports outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT). This article presents results from a research study that evaluated an OPAT program that treated communityacquired pneumonia. If patients had ...

From polymer gels to cytoskeletal structures, random networks of elastic material are commonly found in both materials science and biology. We present a three-dimensional micromechanical model of these networks and identify ...

In this article the authors seek to make the case that qualitative data analysis can be explained within the framework of critical thinking and incorporates within this framework the role of technology – specifically NVivo. ...

We explore immigrant entrepreneurship using structuration theory to understand how migrant-led venture creation conducts socially-intersective market activity in the host country of high economic inequality and social ...

The nation’s nuclear power industry is in trouble. The number of operating reactors continues to decline, while only one new plant is scheduled to open and it is well behind schedule and 50% over budget. The article will ...

Big data analytics picked up pace to offer meaningful information based on analyzing big data. Big data have various distinctive characteristics that together have led to overwhelming the available infrastructures both ...

The passage of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1996 set into motion the eventual pathway for approval of biomarkers used in PET. This was the sentinel event in the history of molecular imaging as well ...

In this paper, we investigate the requirements and challenges of introducing mobility in large distributed systems. One major obstacle is resource discovery in the presence of mobile nodes. Collaborative resource discovery ...