Assessing ophthalmic services

Ophthalmic nursing services in Botswana

Ophthalmic nurses make up 90% of all eye workers in Botswana’s public sector, and they are the only eye professionals being trained inside the country. In 2010, there were 88 ophthalmic nurses working in the public sector. The majority (74) were in primary and secondary care settings where they functioned independently under the supervision of general (non-ophthalmic) facility and department ma...

Assessing the Impact of Microenterprise Services (AIMS)

Assessing Maturity for e-Government Services

E-service development as an integral part of e-government is growing area so the assessment of maturity of these services is becoming increasingly relevant. This paper presents more precise method for the evaluation of e-service maturity. It is based on stage model, the service division into the components – operations and the statistics of intensity of their usage in traditional and electronic...

Assessing Ecosystem Services to Identify Conservation Priorities

The history of life is fi lled with examples of one species diverging into several, even thousands, each with unique traits geared to the demands of its ecological niche. In the textbook case of adaptive radiation, an ancestral fi nch species landed on the Galapagos Islands just a few million years ago, and evolved into 13 new species with specialized beaks adapted to exploiting the various see...

Introduction to Assessing and Securing Web Services

The primary purpose of the paper is to provide an introduction to security related problems in web services implementations, describe approaches used to identify these issues, and provide brief recommendations to resolve these problems. Questions such as the following are important in this respect: • How does the web service authenticate the service consumer or client? • How does the client aut...