We propose a new message delivery service called MessageBox. The service allows the writer of the message to provide on-demand message delivery using email to a list of readers. The writer specifies the list of authorized readers; such readers may request email delivery of the message at their convenience. Simple security mechanisms thwart unauthorized readers. We describe three applications of...

The article by Walters et al. raised some very important points related to the problem of long elective surgery waiting lists in Australian public hospitals, including those related to the reporting of waiting lists being a poor indicator of quality for a health service. The number of people on a waiting list does not actually give any indication as to whether patients are being seen within cli...

While the quality of service (QoS) profiles for a number of general packet radio service (GPRS) classes has been specified [1] by ETSI, how QoS management is provided by means of traffic scheduling, traffic shaping, and connection admission control, in a GPRS network is an implementation issue that is attracting significant current research interest. This paper presents an evaluation of several...

Background One in six five 16-year-olds have a probable mental health difficulty. Of these, almost half of older teenagers and quarter 11–16-year-olds report having self-harmed or attempted suicide. Currently, there is little research into crisis services for young people, with understanding what exist, who uses them, works bes...

Abstract The guidance available for tailoring mental health services autistic people is limited and dispersed. Practitioners attempting to appropriately adapt healthcare therapy provision report low confidence inconsistency in their approach. This study contributes the by providing a shortlist of usable priority adaptations diagnostic as described multidisciplinary staff members responsible des...

This paper describes a project in which a voluntary preferred prescribing list (general practice formulary), analogous to those already in use in some hospitals, was created, implemented and monitored. Cooperation between a pharmacist with knowledge of drug information, access to specialist advice and back-up in the form of evaluated information from drug information centres and a group of five...

Dynamic Web service composition is a process of building a new value added service using available services to satisfy the requester’s complex functional need. In this paper we propose the broker based architecture for dynamic Web service composition. The broker plays a major role in effective and efficient discovery of Web services for the individual tasks of the complex need. The broker maint...