Context aware service which provides best suitable services for a user by analyzing user’s needs and situational information, will be one of the promising next generation (NG) mobile services. In this paper, we propose the NG mobile service environment based on the NG mobile service platform and evolutional phases of context aware services in the NG mobile service environment. We then introduce...

Little is known about the situational contexts in which individuals consume processed sources of dietary sugars. This study aimed to describe the situational contexts associated with the consumption of sweetened food and drink products in a Catholic Middle Eastern Canadian community. A two-stage exploratory sequential mixed-method design was employed with a rationale of triangulation. In stage ...

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...

Workarounds are still one of the most puzzling phenomena in business process management research and practice. From a compliance perspective, workarounds are studied as control failure and the cause for inferior process quality. From a process reengineering perspective, however, workarounds are studied as an important source of process improvement. In this paper, we advance recent theory on the...

In the real-time battlefield arena, situational awareness becomes critical to making the right decisions and achieving the overall goals for the system. The key to Situational Awareness is not simply collecting and disseminating data, but it is actually getting the right information to the right users at the right time. In ground processing systems, various sensors, spacecraft, and other data s...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE To explore the meanings assigned to the experience of receiving chemotherapy. DESIGN Descriptive exploratory. SETTING An oncology outpatient clinic in a university hospital in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. SAMPLE Ten women with breast cancer who experienced chemotherapy for the first time. METHODS Semistructured interview using a grounded theory approach. FINDINGS Women ...

BACKGROUND Previous research has suggested important contextual factors that can differentiate problem and nonproblem drinkers. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the strength of the prospective association between social contexts of drinking and subsequent alcohol use disorder and drunk driving 2-3 years later. METHODS The sample consisted of 652 individuals who were originally recruited at college en...

ing away from tense, this example can be formalized by the DRS in figure 2.3. The linear notation for this DRS is man fat push bicycle poss male . Let us consider this DRS in the context of a DRS which informs us about the situational background.