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Technology has been a driving force in changing the society of the developing Nations in Asia. Technology in healthcare is one of those various applications areas. Women in remote areas of developing nations are subject to lack of adequate healthcare facilities and specialist doctors. One of the commonest forms of cancer in women worldwide is Uterine Cervical Cancer. Most cases of cervical cancer...
Smart meters have become a matter of concern for many populations, although the technology is as always politically neutral. The focus on electricity rather than all metered services, water, gas and electricity is one aspect of this public concern.
Online shopping from foreign websites, or cross-border electronic commerce, has not become very common despite its potential advantages for consumers. This study investigated the factors that influence the intention to use a foreign website, using a model of consumer behavior with trust and risk. Additionally, it examines how feedback from users of different nationalities affects the relationships...
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness after cataracts and its detection is essential to prevent visual damage. Glaucoma is the third leading cause of blindness in India. The framework designed, will be able to help in early detection and diagnosis of glaucoma using perimetry data and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images. The co-relation between perimetry and OCT data will be evaluated...
For internet service providers, providing quality customer service is as important as providing promised bandwidth and consistent service availability. In Pakistan, there is fierce competition among wireless and wire-line technology ISP's. The total number of broadband users in the country has exceeded 1.7m and the industry is yet to experience the boom in full enormity. Set in this scenario, we studied...
Community Care in Australia is provided by a range of service providers including, government agencies, not for profit agencies and for profit agencies. Such a broad range of service providers presents a significant and complex challenge in the development of common and coherent Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems. These challenges include; limited interoperability, complex and...
Fresh water shortage and energy crisis are some of the most critical problems in the world. There are many methods to desalinate salt water, yet most of them are of high cost and energy-intensive. In our project, we attempt to use genetically engineered E. coli that could overexpress halorhodopsin to desalinate sea water with solar energy. Electricity can be generated from the change of salinity,...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has made a significant impact on the functioning of enterprises and the urban communities. However benefits of ICT revolution are yet to reach the rural communities. In this paper, we show how communities in rural area can benefit from informatics, for their primary healthcare needs. We describe an innovative community informatic tool called ‘mHEALTH-...
Companies globally are expected to discharge their stakeholder responsibilities and societal obligations, along with their shareholder-wealth maximization goal. While this is a sustainable intent for the whole ecosystem, it leads us to the question of whether there is a way to determine if the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy is viable. A CSR initiative is treated by most organizations...
This paper attempts to demonstrate that the philosophy of technology grounded in the humanities has relevance for practising technologists. Technologists occupy a problematic role in the philosophy of technology. On the one hand their privileged position vis-a-vis technology appears to offer them a powerful role in shaping the development of technology. On the other, the philosophical discourse (and...
This mixed methods study with a sequential explanatory strategy explored qualitatively the statistically significant quantitative findings relative to Indian respondents' perceptions about RFID (radio frequency identification) transponders implanted into the human body. In the first analysis phase of the study, there was a significant chi-square analysis reported (χ2 = 56.64, df = 3, p = .000) relative...
Nanotechnology is emerging as a key, transformative technology of the 21st Century. With its great uncertainty, nanotechnology indicates potentially high risk. Drawing on the idea of “governance”, which stresses the participation of all stakeholders, this paper depicts the current nanotechnology development in mainland China from four aspects: governmental policy, academic community (natural sciences,...
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