The study intended to analyze the optimum solution to enhance utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services to the grassroots community in Dodoma Municipal Council (DMC) in Tanzania. The specific objectives of this study were to: identify the availability and use of ICT infrastructures for service delivery at grassroots level; identify possible Local Government Authorit...

PURPOSE This study describes the design, operation and evaluation of a community-based research (CBR) consult service within the setting of a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institution. To our knowledge, there are no published evaluations of a CBR consult service at a CTSA hub. METHODS A community-based research Consult Service was created to support faculty, health care prov...

Services discovery, selection, composition, verification, and adaptation are important in service-oriented computing. Existing researches often study techniques to maximize the benefits of individual services. However, following the power laws, a small fraction of quality services offers their executions to support a significant portion of all service requests. We argue that locating and mainta...

BACKGROUND Since the 1978 Italian reform, an integrated network of community mental health services has been introduced. With few exceptions, research on determinants of mental health service use at the district level has focused on inpatient activities and social deprivation indicators. The European Psychiatric Care Assessment Team (EPCAT) standardized methodology allows for an evidence-based ...

Business, academic, and government leaders have spoken out for professional education to integrate solid knowledge and skills with a spirit of volunteerism and community service This paper describes an example of how community service-learning has been applied in an information systems course that emphasizes information literacy required in a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Twelve-step fellowships have been viewed as possibly inhibiting participants' community involvement. This article reports on a qualitative study of 33 recovering people who attended a 12-step fellowship and involved themselves in the community to find out how this involvement was affected by their 12-step participation. This article describes the participants' community activity and their perce...

Service provision in low power network environments remains a very difficult task due to the lightweight nature of the devices involved. This paper explores and demonstrates the efficacy of the light weight resource allocation protocol (LRAP) in allocating services in a heterogeneous network environment consisting of primarily low power nodes. We show that with the correct resource brokering ap...