Clinical and biomedical research production is rapidly growing, but delivery to practitioners remains unacceptably slow. To improve health care quality and to make the best scientific achievements part of usual practices, clinicians need better information systems and services. The international, multi-disciplinary author team presents the analyses and recommendations that will lead to competitive advantages by increasing quality and effectiveness of health care delivery. The book includes the latest findings on: -Advanced information technologies in disseminating research results -Information infrastructure for transferring research -Structuring knowledge for practical application -Practical solutions: better information for improved health care quality. The practical approach of this book ensures easy to read, stand-alone chapters that will benefit medical group managers and local and commercial developers of health care information systems. The book is also a useful educational tool for medical informatics, health care administration, and health services research.
Internet and World Wide Web technology have raised many technical as well as
social and economic issues. The paper begins with a description of the recent
digital library research initiative funded by the U.S. federal government.
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2010, held in Kasane, Botswana, in July 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers cover a wide range of topics addressing the utilization of ICT at different levels of education from primary education to higher education, such as identifying and satisfying learning needs, strategical management, school management information systems, open source software, and the relationship between ICT and organizational performance.
9th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational
Management, ITEM 2010, Kasane, Botswana, July 26-30, 2010, Revised
Selected Papers Arthur Tatnall, Omponye Coach Kereteletswe, Adrie Visscher ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, DPPR 2011, held in Tirunelveli, India, in September 2011. The 48 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from about 400 submissions. The conference brought together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. The papers cover all theoretical and practical aspects of the field and present new advances and current research results in two tracks, namely: digital image processing and pattern recognition, and computer science, engineering and information technology.
First International Conference on Digital Image Processing and Pattern
Recognition, DPPR 2011, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, ... 1 Introduction Nowadays,
world is being influenced a lot by computers and almost all the important
processing is ...
Digital cities constitutes a multidisciplinary field of research and development, where researchers, designers and developers of communityware interact and collaborate with social scientists studying the use and effects of these kinds of infrastructures and systems in their local application context. The field is rather young. After the diffusion of ICT in the world of organizations and companies, ICT entered everyday life. And this also influenced ICT research and development. The 1998 Workshop on Communityware and Social Interaction in Kyoto was an early meeting in which this emerging field was discussed. After that, two subsequent Digital Cities workshops were organized in Kyoto, and a third one in Amsterdam. This book is the result of the 3rd Workshop on Digital Cities, which took place September 18–19, 2003 in Amsterdam, in conjunction with the 1st Communities and Technologies Conference. Most of the papers were presented at this workshop, and were revised thoroughly afterwards. Also the case studies of digital cities in Asia, the US, and Europe, included in Part I, were direct offsprings of the Digital Cities Workshops. Together the papers in this volume give an interesting state-of-the-art overview of the field. In total 54 authors from the Americas, from Asia, and from Europe were contributed to this volume. The authors come from Brazil (two), the USA (eleven), China (three), Japan (fourteen), Finland (two), Germany (two), Italy (three), Portugal (two), the Netherlands (eight), and the UK (seven), indicating the international nature of the research field.
World Digital Cities: Beyond Heterogeneity Toru Ishida1, Alessandro Aurigi2,
Mika Yasuoka3 1 Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University & Japan ...
Asian countries are actively adopting the latest information technologies for city
informatization. ... 1 Introduction Since the early 1990s, and particularly with the
popularization of the Internet and the World Wide Web, a wave of experiments
and ...
Introduction, Challenges, and Concepts of Personal Information Management for
Individual Learners Stefanie ... E-tivities are designed as an efficient way to use
new technologies in teaching and learning. ... learning, thus, employs different
media—books, e-books, e-lectures, audio and 28 1 Learning in a Digital World.
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practices: Smart Devices, Convergence and Next Generation Networks, WISTP 2008, held in Seville, Spain, in May 2008. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book; they examine the rapid development of information technologies and the transition to next generation networks. The papers focus on the security of these complex and resource-constrained systems and are organized in topical sections on smart devices, network security, convergence, and cryptography.
... dedicated storage, and dedicated security processors. 1 Introduction As
security takes on ever increasing importance in today's connected, digital world;
security solutions incorporate new, dedicated hardware at an increasing rate [1,2,
3,4 ...
The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed studies of a variety of developed and developing nations and regions: Argentina, Estonia, the EU, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and the USA.
Information policy and information technology in Central and Eastern Europe with
emphasis on Estonia Tanga McDaniel* 1. INTRODUCTION This chapter
highlights various policies and programmes that have affected the information
and ...
Spread in 133 articles divided in 20 sections the present treatises broadly discusses: Part 1: Image Processing Part 2: Radar and Satellite Image Processing Part 3: Image Filtering Part 4: Content Based Image Retrieval Part 5: Color Image Processing and Video Processing Part 6: Medical Image Processing Part 7: Biometric Part 8: Network Part 9: Mobile Computing Part 10: Pattern Recognition Part 11: Pattern Classification Part 12: Genetic Algorithm Part 13: Data Warehousing and Mining Part 14: Embedded System Part 15: Wavelet Part 16: Signal Processing Part 17: Neural Network Part 18: Nanotechnology and Quantum Computing Part 19: Image Analysis Part 20: Human Computer Interaction
It finds application in almost all imaging devices such as digital camera, mobile
phone, ipods, etc. ... INTRODUCTION. In today's digital world, there are various
capturing techniques and instruments such as the high resolution digital cameras
, ...
