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Emergent technologies present particular difficulties for ethical assessment. Such innovations must be evaluated in terms of device, system, design, and policy. Robotics is an example where ethical assessment is required. The deployment of key cultural traditions offers a way to evaluate an emergent technology. The Chinese traditions of puppetry and ritual formation are particularly appropriate in...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
For seven months from late 1955, Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) worked at the Indian Statistical Institute at the invitation of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972). Mahalanobis had achieved a remarkable feat, the creation of a world class institution within a decade of India's independence. Wiener was also at the peak of his career, having established the field of cybernetics a few years earlier...
Ubiquitous Computing systems stand to bring many benefits in life. To achieve this, such systems will require unprecedented levels of data to be collected, in real time, about users. One issue with this level of data collection is that monitoring can often cause users to change their behavior, potentially rendering the data collected inaccurate. The PSA-BI model was developed to predict the behavior/responses...
Quantifying environmental footprint is an important task for the embedded system researcher as this study keep them aware of environmental impacts' threat toward green and healthy living of human beings. In this work we have presented a study on analysis of sustainability and environmental impacts assessment in manufacturing process of rigid substrate printed antennas. Life cycle assessment approach...
Curriculum reform in higher education is needed to keep up with the demand of the developing society and new learners. Over the past two years, curriculum reform has taken place at Hebei University of Technology in China in order to enhance the effectiveness of teaching Organic Chemistry. First, a survey was designed to investigate students' attitudes toward Organic Chemistry. Then, some strategies...
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...
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