Telemedicine is many things to many people. Only until a few years ago, telemedicine was equated to video teleconferencing between physicians, while nowadays, perhaps the most acti...
Sang-goo Lee, Seong K. Mun, Prakash Jha, Betty Ann...
The past decade has seen the development of a perspective holding that technology is socially constructed (Mackenzie and Wacjman, 1985; Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, 1987; Bijker and L...
To meet users’ growing needs for accessing pre-existing heterogeneous databases, a multidatabase system (MDBS) integrating multiple databases has attracted many researchers recen...
In a distributed real-time database system (DRTDBS), a commit protocol is required to ensure transaction failure atomicity. If data conflicts occur between executing and committin...
Kam-yiu Lam, Chung-Leung Pang, Sang Hyuk Son, Jian...
The fact that objects in the world appear in different ways depending on the scale of observation has important implications if one aims at describing them. It shows that the not...