PURPOSE Results from the Danish cluster-randomized trial of telehealthcare to 1,225 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the Danish Telecare North Trial, concluded that the telehealthcare solution was unlikely to be cost-effective, by applying international willingness-to-pay threshold values. The purpose of this article was to assess potential sources of variation across...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems exist to create effectiveness organizations but measurement of this is so difficult. Effectiveness is multiconcept. Three variables affect organizational effectiveness such as defined casual, intervening and end-result. In this article at the first, we review measurement methods that have a full fitness with these variables. After that, we try to use t...

1 Measuring the Effect of Team Characteristics, Team Effectiveness on Organizational Performance, Organizational Survival and Competitiveness: A Case Study of an Indonesian NGO, Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa by using PLS Method Cheng Ping Shih, Graduate Institute of International Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Dian Utami Putri, Graduate Institute of In...

To be successfully and sustainably adopted, policy-makers, service managers and practitioners want public programmes to be affordable and cost-effective, as well as effective. While the realist evaluation question is often summarised as what works for whom, under what circumstances, we believe the approach can be as salient to answering questions about resource use, costs and cost-effectiveness...

Distributed multimedia applications with quality of service requirements that must be guaranteed by the underlying network are evolving at a fast pace. Resource reservation protocols are essential to enable efficient resource management in internetworks. We survey existing resource reservation protocols and the reservation styles they support. Current protocols do not permit different reservati...

As the occurrence of failure of electronic resources is sudden, real-time record analysis on the effectiveness of all resources in the system can discover abnormal resources earlier and start using backup resources or restructure resources in time, thus managing abnormal situations and finally realizing health management of the system. This paper proposed an algorithm: MFPattern, for mining fre...