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Global information infrastructure

International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing, 1994
The High Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCC) is a multiagency federal initiative under the leadership of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, established by the High Performance Computing Act of 1991. It has been assigned a critical role in supporting the international collaboration essential to science and to ...
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Research on Critical Infrastructures and Critical Information Infrastructures

2009 Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2009
A research on current condition and problems of critical infrastructures and critical information infrastructures is described in this paper. This article includes issues, the discussion of problems and comments about each of the common Critical Infrastructures from an international, national, local and individual perspective. There are many threats to
Feruza Sattarova Yusufovna, Farkhod Alisherov Alisherovich, Minkyu Choi, Eun-suk Cho, Furkhat Tadjibayev Abdurashidovich, Tai-Hoon Kim   +5 more
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Information Infrastructure

International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, 2010
Recent work on information systems has discussed the nature and the complexity of the Information Infrastructures (II) concept. This research has mainly focused on two aspects: studying the process that both shapes and stabilizes information infrastructures, and studying the role played by information infrastructure in leveraging business performance ...
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Ubiquitous information infrastructure for rescue

Proceedings of the 41st SICE Annual Conference. SICE 2002., 2003
In this paper, we propose an information infrastructure for the victim search system in rescue activity. We have developed an intelligent data carrier (IDC) system that enables one to provide the environment with information storage, sensing, and processing functionality. Each IDC unit has its own CPU, memory and radio communication module.
Asama, Hajime, Kurabayashi, Daisuke, Noda, Ken’ichi   +2 more
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Building an Information Technology Infrastructure

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2008
Information technology is considered a potentially transformative element in the field of health care by payers, providers, vendors, and consumers alike. Because of this transformative potential, health information technology (HIT) adoption is viewed by many as a key component of health system reform.
Melissa M, Goldstein, David, Blumenthal
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ACM SIGCHI information infrastructure

CHI '97 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems looking to the future - CHI '97, 1997
We describe recent improvements to the ACM SIGCHI information infrastructure, mainly in the SIGCHI Web site and SIGCHI use of the ACM LISTSERV for mailing lists and aliases, and how they have been applied to provide general information, support committees, publications and conferences, and technical discussions.
Gary Perlman, Keith Instone
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Public health information infrastructure

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, 2008
The public health infrastructure is a set of agencies and organizations whose mission is to create the environment in which we can be healthy. This broadest of definitions includes state and local health departments, selected federal agencies, and a wide range of other governmental, nonprofit, and for-profit agencies and organizations. This report will
Joel L, Nitzkin, Christopher, Buttery
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Infrastructural Innovation and Generative Information Infrastructures

2015
This chapter addresses issues related to how to enable the broadest possible innovative activities by infrastructural technology design. The authors focus on the development of high-level services based on mobile telecommunication technologies that for matters of simplicity are termed the development of a Mobile Internet.
Ole Hanseth, Petter Nielsen
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Markets, standards, and the information infrastructure

IEEE Micro, 1993
The author presents a synthesis of thinking within the economics field about network development and standardization. The analysis focuses on understanding economic factors shaping important contemporary events and the development of standards in tomorrow's information infrastructure.
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An Information Infrastructure For The Pharmaceutical Market

Health Affairs, 2004
The primary contribution of Joseph Newhouse's paper is to make the point that it is impossible to devise a drug pricing policy that satisfies either the conditions for economic efficiency or prevailing standards of "fairness." Not specifically mentioned by Newhouse is a rule for the socially efficient outlays on selling and marketing by the ...
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