As high speed networks are starting to provide guaranteed performance service, it is imperative to revise fault recovery techniques to support this new service. In this paper we investigate one aspect of fault recovery in this context, the rerouting of guaranteed performance connections affected by link faults in the network. Recovery is achieved by rerouting the affected connection so as to av...

Can end-to-end communication performance be guaranteed by a packet-switching internetwork? This paper addresses the question by examining the feasibility of extending to an internetwork the Tenet approach to real-time communication service design. The conditions to be satisfied by an internetwork so that the approach can be extended to it are investigated. These include conditions for the sched...

Background For multimodal pain therapy (MPT), a bio-psycho-social therapy approach for patients suffering from chronic pain, a core outcome set (COS) is currently lacking. Following the recommendations from initiatives such as Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) and Harmonizing Outcome Measures for Eczema (HOME), the study “Validation and Application of a patient relevant core set of out...

background :traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. this paper is a report on a preliminary section of a health impact assessment (hia) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in sanandaj, iran. in this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of urban traffic rel...

health care provider-specific performance can be useful tools for informed decisionmaking by consumers, purchasers, and regulators. Additionally they can stimulate improvements in the quality of care and provide insight in targeting of quality improvement activities. Following up on the spring 2001 issue of the Review on performance measures for health plans, this issue addresses provider-speci...

This article introduces a new column which will explore the way different regions and nation states are dealing with the challenges of managing health information. The intention is to draw together trends which are relevant to both health science librarians and health informatics professionals. This inaugural piece maps out the territory. It provides a rationale for the column, along with evide...