OBJECTIVE The World Health Organization has led the development of a Decision-Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and Providers (DMT) to improve the quality of family planning counseling. This study investigates the DMT's impact on health communication in Nicaragua. METHODS Fifty nine service providers in Nicaragua were videotaped with 426 family planning clients 3 months before and 4 mon...

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...

this study examines the impact of organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) on client satisfaction of the judiciary system. the research is applied based on objective and based on the type of data is a correlation analysis. to test the hypothesis of the research, the data were collected using a likert scale questionnaire and be analyzed using spss and amos packages. statistical population of th...

The Domain Name System (DNS) performs an essential Internet duty: the translation of host names, which are convenient for humans, into IP addresses, which are used to route packets. To do so, an application on an end-user’s system must contact a DNS resolver to perform these translations. While the user’s system may run a DNS resolver locally, many use an ISP resolver (sometimes called a DNS ca...

This paper presents a programming paradigm for synchronizing multiple clients and servers. The solution is flexible and efficient and shows how class-wide types and protected objects can be used to achieve the effect of dispatching on entry calls.

IP addresses are an important tool for fighting spam, used for safe lists, blackhole lists, anti-spoofing and related purposes. While it is trivial to find the sender’s IP address in most email server software, it turns out to be surprisingly difficult to do so in email client software: we explain why. This implies that either alternative approaches are needed (typically signature-based) or tha...

Kykyri, Virpi-Liisa Helping Clients to Help Themselves. A Discursive Perspective to Process Consulting Practices in Multi-party Settings Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä, 2008, 76 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research ISSN 0075-4625; 330) ISBN 978-951-39-3082-0 (PDF), 978-951-39-3071-4 (nid.) Finnish Summary Diss. This study approaches process consulting work as c...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to comparatively analyze the perceptions of clients and occupational therapists regarding their involvement in the process of client-centered practice. METHOD Participants (11 occupational therapists, 30 clients) in adult/geriatric health care facilities were each engaged in a semistructured interview to determine their perceptions of client-centered pr...