AIMS AND METHOD At a London teaching hospital, the existing off-site consultation model psychiatric liaison service for older people was replaced with an on-site liaison model service in December 2000. Several indicators of the functioning of the service were audited using identical methods before and after this change. RESULTS The case-load increased by 50%, but the liaison psychiatrists were ...

The realities of climate change are gradually dawning on everyone including children. The need for a disaster reduction education requires the use of mobile technologies to identify some of the impact of climate change within an environment and create awareness on the dangers associated with climate change. Since the pre-service teachers will teach the primary school pupils, it is aptthat the u...

Due to the fast growth, Cloud Computing has become a non-transparent market with providers and customers willing to adopt it. Furthermore, many offers only partially meet customers’ requirements and it is not clear how exactly Cloud Computing influences the IT. That makes it difficult for customers to plan migration projects and implement sustainable Cloud solutions. There are important factors...

Cloud computing is a recent computing paradigm that represents a fundamental change of information commu- nication technology (ICT) services and Cloud services continue to grow rapidly with increasing functionality and more users. As a result of this growth, it is a critical issue to select a suitable Cloud service which meets all the business strategies and the objectives of firms. This paper ...

Fragmented technological and organizational environment has compromised flexibility and efficiency of Finnish healthcare system. Managers have promoted process orientation as a solution for organizational problems while technologists have been praising service orientation for technological issues. As a result process perspective and service orientation are included in national development effor...

Communication between services requires a common vocabulary to allow reliable exchange of information. However services are evolving independently and their ontologies evolve too. The existing distributed ontology evolution approaches are not scaled to dynamic environments like Semantic Web service architecture. As the distributed system grows in size, the complexity of ontology change manageme...

Content Delivery Networks must adapt their configuration continuously to maintain acceptable performance in the presence of large variations in their request load characteristics. To automate and systematize these necessary continuous adaptations, we propose to structure a CDN along a grid service-oriented architecture. Two techniques can be used to simplify the development and maintenance of s...

BACKGROUND Previous research has shown diagnosis or screening for cancer may be a 'teachable moment' for prevention through lifestyle change. Previous trials have been successful but have been delivered via national programmes targeting patients being screened for colorectal cancer. This manuscript reports the protocol for a proof-of-concept study to assess the feasibility and acceptability of ...

The ability to cope with multiple competing stakeholders, fluid requirements, emergent behavior, and susceptibility to external pressures that can cause changes across an entire organization, coupled with the ability to support service diversification, is a key to an enterprise’s competitiveness. Web services equip enterprises with the potential to react to change by addressing two interrelated...

Service systems produce all services of significance and scope, yet the concept of service system is not well articulated in the service literature. This paper presents three interrelated frameworks as a first cut at the fundamentals of service systems. These frameworks identify basic building blocks and organize important attributes and change processes that apply across all service systems. A...