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The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) allows for the distributed collection and searching of healthcare information. However, it usually does not integrate easily into healthcare professionals' daily workflows. Barriers to its acceptance include costs such as time and effort, but also relational and educational issues. Access controls are likely to increase the barrier to acceptance, since their design and implementation are very complex and thus costly. Three literature reviews were performed in order to gain insight to this problem. The two reviews regarding access control implementation (A and B) showed that the definition of an access control policy was ACP(A)=29% and ACP(B)=58%, and the participation of end users in its development within Information Systems (IS) was UPD(A)=0% and UPD(B)=0%. The review regarding evaluation methods (Review C) showed that most chosen methods were not appropriate for the evaluation that needed to be performed (CMI(C)=44%) and that the ISs were difficult to use (SDU(C)=22%) and did not simplify the workflow environment for which they were implemented (CWD(C)=19%). The goal of this paper is to propose that future access control systems for EMR should monitor healthcare professionals' attitudes, opinions and experiences through the use of comprehensive evaluation methods to improve the acceptance of EMR.

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We present, for the first time to our knowledge, results on the characterization of response of a dual resonance observed in the spectrum of a single long-period grating arcinduced in a B/Ge co-doped fiber to different physical parameters. The dual resonance is formed by two overlapping resonances corresponding to coupling of the core mode to symmetric and antisymmetric cladding modes. Therefore, these resonances may behave differently when strain, bending, torsion, or temperature is applied to the grating. We show that the bending, strain, and torsion sensitivities of the two resonances are very different, while the temperature sensitivities are almost the same. © 2008 IEEE.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has created the Simulation Model Portability 2 (SMP2) standard with the purpose to provide a design solution for the project of Spacecraft Simulators. One element of the SMP2 standard is the metamodel Simulation Model Definition Language (SMDL). The design artefacts of a Spacecraft Simulator consist in descriptions of the business logic shared by a set of SMP2 models. This paper reports results from a study that considers the hypothesis to complement the model-driven design approach of the SMP2 standard with test-driven design techniques. The high-level abstractions of Spacecraft Simulators are used to carry out Model-Driven Development processes, while reusable pieces of software that can to be used by many SMP2 models are designed and developed following Test-Driven-Development. The tool capable to establish the dependencies between the source code produced by the two methodologies and mission specific source code is the GNU Build System.

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The internet in the last few years has changed the way people interact with each other. In the past, users were just passive actors, consuming the information available on the web. Nowadays, their behavior is the opposite. With the so-called web 2.0, internet users became active agents and are now responsible for the creation of the content in web sites like MySpace, Wikipedia, YouTube, Yahoo! Answers and many more. Likewise, the way people buy a product or service has changed considerably. Thousands of online communities have been created on the internet, where users can share opinions and ideas about an electronic device, a medical service or a restaurant. An increasing number of consumers use this kind of online communities as information source before buying a product or service. This article describes a web system with the goal of creating an online community, where users could share their knowledge about local services, writing reviews and answering questions made by other members of the community regarding those services. The system will provide means for synchronous and asynchronous communication between users so that they can share their knowledge more easily.