OBJECTIVES A review of outcome research conducted between 1982 and 1992 revealed return-to-work rates for industrial rehabilitation programs that ranged from 50% to 88%. Variations in outcome statistics appeared to reflect discrepancies in factors such as type of research design, initial characteristics of the client sample, and clients excluded from the study group. METHOD A work-hardening o...

Replication of web content in the Internet has been found to improve service response time, performance and reliability offered by web services. When working with such distributed server systems, the location of servers with respect to client nodes is found to affect service response time perceived by clients in addition to server load conditions. This is due to the characteristics of the netwo...

In a client-server system, when LRU or its variant buffer replacement strategy is used on both the client and the server, the cache performance on the server side is very poor mainly because of pages duplicated in both systems. This paper introduces a server buffer replacement strategy which uses a replaced page-id than a request page-id, for the primary information for its operations. The impo...

Abstract Introduction Today in Vietnam, LGBT people face barriers accessing healthcare services mainly due to the lack of reliable and friendly facilities. The limited knowledge about gender diversity makes it difficult for be accepted. percentage transgender taking hormones without medical supervision is up 70%. In order help avoid risks, get psychology counseling, able treat physical problems...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with client perceptions of the quality of primary care services in Afghanistan. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of outpatient health facilities, health workers, patients and caretakers. SETTING Primary health care facilities in every province of Afghanistan. Main outcome measure Numerical scale of client perceptions of service quality. RESULTS Client...