Purpose – The potential of current awareness services (CAS) for oncology nurses is considered with special reference to the spectrum of WWW CAS that are available, their benefits and problems, and how these can be linked to the dynamic health environments in which oncology nurses may find themselves. The intention with the article is to show the need for exploring the value of WWW CAS for dynam...

Charging schemes are needed to protect an integrated services network from arbitrary resource reservations and to create a funding mechanism to extend network capacity at the most desired locations at the expense of those users that actually use these resources. While not being the only input into pricing and charging, cost calculation is an important part of a charging scheme. In this paper, w...

Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and subsequent performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if information about one’s relative standing towards the referen...

The U.S. videoconferencing market is expected to reach $3.1 Billion dollars in 2008, a 121% increase from its 2003 level. As videoconferencing moves from the high priced ISDN-based services to the low-cost IP-based services it may make videoconferencing a competitive alternative for global training. In this research lessons learned in the first nine months of a three-year longitudinal study are...

Many studies have shown the feasibility of psychiatric consultation in telehealth, and some have addressed the effectiveness of telepsychotherapy. However, outcome studies on telepsychiatry essentially amount to a few case studies, none of which have used an empirically validated psychosocial treatment to treat a specific mental disorder. This article presents the preliminary results of an outc...

The authors strongly believe using an efficient pricing scheme will help to optimise the capacity of future multi-service networks. Network resources should be guided to those users that places the highest value on them. Usage patterns should also be influenced to better utilise the available network capacity. This can be done by providing the user with a “window” on conditions in the network a...

In this paper, we summarize some eecient techniques and methods which have been developed for high rate multi-media wireless communications. The overall structure of a wireless cellular system which provides integrated services is proposed. Spread spectrum DS-CDMA and modiied ATM techniques are chosen to support the system. Ef-cient signalling and error control coding methods are investigated. ...

We examined reference point adaptation following gains or losses in security trading using participants from China, Korea, and the US. In both questionnaire studies and trading experiments with real money incentives, reference point adaptation was larger for Asians than for Americans. Subjects in all countries adapted their reference points more after a gain than after an equal-sized loss. When...

Digital library users have to deal with many separate services. This paper describes e orts in the United Kingdom to use OpenURL technology to provide `joined-up' services. The focus is on zetoc, a national electronic service, which enables users to nd references in a British Library bibliographic database. zetoc now uses OpenURL technology to provide routes to services, which might give users ...

Yang Xu, Jia Liu, Yulong Shen, Xiaohong Jiang, Norio Shiratori State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Network, Xidian University, Xian 710071, China Cyber Security Research Center, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan School of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate, Hakodate 041-8655, Japan Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, Tokyo 11...