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Exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy during a magnetic resonance imaging exam is a safety concern related to biological thermal effects. Estimation of the specific absorption rate (SAR) is done by manufacturer scanner...

Health Information Systems Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Health Information Systems

This work is devoted to addressing the IT governance - management communication aspects, considering that their responsibilities are different, but complementary, in developing an IT governance framework. Our research question...

IT Governance Business and Management Business Information Systems

Structural capital is one of the components of intellectual capital. The measurement is essential in order to obtain the real value of intellectual capital and its influence on the profitability of the business. The measurement...

Knowledge Management Library and Information Science Knowledge Management

This paper presents test results for silica and corundum base metals casting sands. Standardized tests were carried out to understand physical and mechanical properties of the metal casting sands and molding mixtures prepared...

Previous research points that computer-supported collaborative learning is an educational approach that suits blind students, because they have high verbal capacity. The authors believe that both sighted and blind students may...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

“The darkest of all things” (SW II: 359), “the cliff upon which all false systems founder from the outset” (SW II: 223), “the crisis of consciousness” (SW XIV: 210), “maybe the hardest of all metaphysical concepts” (SW X: 310)...

This study seeks to study the relationship between market orientation and business performance and to evaluate the mediating effect of adopting a low-price strategy in this relationship in the hotel industry. A sample from the...

Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology IT Research and Theory

People living with cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) are likely to have worse clinical outcomes and greater impairment on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) than other sarcoidosis manifestations. CS can result in a constellation of...

Cardiac sarcoidosis Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) Systematic review

Studies concerning Big Data patents have been published; however, research investigating Big Data projects is scarce. Therefore, the objective of this study was to conduct an exploratory analysis of a patent database to collect...

Business Intelligence Business and Management Business Information Systems

The use of system dynamics techniques to model the sales and operations planning (S&OP), associated with the economic and financial processes, is an innovative proposal. The objectives of this article are to model and simulate...

Adaptive & Complex Systems Computer Science and Information Technology Computer Engineering

The application of ubiquitous technologies in the improvement of education strategies is called ubiquitous learning. This strategy amplifies the pedagogical potential of e-learning through a ubiquitous and contextualized...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

The term outsourcing has become a conventional means of describing anything associated with the transaction of services that enables client organisations to blur core activities and thereby reduce their internal workforce and...

Asian rust is the main soybean disease in Brazil, causing up to 80% of yield reduction. The use of fungicides is the main form of control; however, due to farmer's concern with outbreaks many unnecessary applications are...

Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

In this article, the authors successfully created two new plugins one for Autopsy Forensic Tool, and the other for Volatility Framework. Both plugins are useful for encoding digital evidences in Forensic Lucid which is the goal...

Digital Crime & Forensics Security and Forensics IT Security and Ethics

The hypertension is a well know problem and associated with a high salt consuming is one of the commonest chronic diseases.To measure the impact of this consuming it has been applied the methodology provided by the Business Case...

Traumatic brain injury Mental Health LONG-TERM OUTCOMES Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) Multivariate Latent Class Mixed Models (Mlcmm) Recuperation Trajectories

Infectious Diseases 2 Aetiology 2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment Infection

Animal studies suggest that the apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOEε4) allele is a culprit of early microglial activation in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we tested the association between APOEε4 status and microglial activation in...

Animals Alzheimer Disease Amyloid beta-Peptides Apolipoprotein E4 Brain Microglia Plaque Amyloid Positron-Emission Tomography tau Proteins Temporal Lobe Apolipoproteins E

We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Over the next 5 yr DESI MWS will observe...

310 Galaxies and Cosmology