The Next Paradigm Shift in the Mobile Ecosystem: Mobile Social Computing and the Increasing Relevance of Users

Social computing has become the paradigm for the increasingly relevant role of users in the Internet world. In this paper, it is argued that mobile social computing will eventually cause an even bigger impact in the mobile ecosystem. We are already at the beginning of the "transference" of a significant part of Internet social computing usage to the mobile domain, where users are no longer passive consumers of content andapplications, but co-creators and even innovators of them. However, mobile social computing will go one step further in the contribution to the development of the mobile ecosystem, since it will put the many situations of users' daily activities at the centre stage. To prove this case, this paper gathers available data and evidence on the patterns of mobile social computing usage and discusses user innovation and user empowerment in the framework of the current mobile ecosystem.Mobile social computing, user innovation, mobile ecosystem.

Serological investigations regarding the effect of infection with swine influenza virus H1N1 on the evolution of enzootic pneumonia in wild boars from western Romania

Abstract The transmission of infectious diseases between wild animals and domestic animals is becoming a global issue of growing interest for the pig producing industry and human public health. In medical literature, that are several reports that wild boars may act as a reservoir for economically important infectious diseases that endemically affect domestic pigs, such as enzootic pneumonia and swine influenza. Although the risk of transmission of these diseases between wild boars and domestic pigs is likely to increase in Western Romania, there is very few data on the seroprevalence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and swine influenza virus in wild boar populations. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine the seroprevalence of infection caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae in wild boar populations from Western Romania in order to contribute to the information necessary for the control of the disease. Also, in order to determine the effect of infection with swine influenza virus H1N1 on the evolution of enzootic pneumonia, the value of seroprevalence for both types of infections was compared. The seroprevalence of infection with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, reported to the total number of samples tested on nine hunting grounds (which belong to Caraș-Severin County, Timiș County, and Bihor County) was 66.67%. The seroprevalence of swine influenza virus infection, reported to the total number of samples tested on 25 hunting grounds (which belong to Caraș-Severin County, Timiș County, and Bihor County) was 11.80%. Mixed infections with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and swine influenza virus subtype H1N1 were detected in two out of the three counties included in the study (Timiș County and Bihor County), with a substantial increase in Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae seropositivity. The results obtained in this study provide information on the disease exposure and health status of wild boars suggesting that Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and swine influenza virus are widespread in wild boar populations from Western Romania and that these pathogens represent a source of infection for domestic pigs, as well as humans

Open Science, Open Data, and Open Scholarship: European Policies to Make Science Fit for the Twenty-First Century

Open science will make science more efficient, reliable, and responsive to societal challenges. The European Commission has sought to advance open science policy from its inception in a holistic and integrated way, covering all aspects of the research cycle from scientific discovery and review to sharing knowledge, publishing, and outreach. We present the steps taken with a forward-looking perspective on the challenges laying ahead, in particular the necessary change of the rewards and incentives system for researchers (for which various actors are co-responsible and which goes beyond the mandate of the European Commission). Finally, we discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within an open science perspective