OBJECTIVES This study examined the information-seeking behaviors of basic science researchers to inform the development of customized library services. METHODS A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted on a sample of basic science researchers employed at a university medical school. RESULTS The basic science researchers used a variety of information resources rangin...

,.-0/21 354!687 /:9;35Due to increasing user expectations, ICT convergence, de-regulation and the vast possibilities of the ubiquitous Internet, the ability to quickly develop and deploy new services will become an increasingly important competitive factor in the future. Whether the solution will be a “smart” or a “stupid” network may be debated to lengths, but there is no question that flexibi...

You hear all about Web Services but do you know how to create one? In this simple "How To" paper, we will try to demonstrate how to write and deploy a simple Web Service using Microsoft’s .NET environment with Visual Basic attend this session, and go back home very dangerous! 1. What is a Web Service? Simply stated, a Web Service offers a method (or methods) that can be invoked using open stand...

Knowing and applying the basic management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling, as well as their permutations and combinations, are vital to effective delivery of public health services. Presently, graduate programs that prepare public health professionals neither emphasize teaching management theory, nor its application. This deficit puts those who become man...

The article describes the environment of WPS-based (Web Processing Service) distributed services, that uses scenarios in JavaScript programming language in order to integrate services with each other. The environment standardizes data processing procedures, stores all services-related information and offers the set of basic WPS-services.

High maternal morbidity and mortality in many developing countries are highly associated with poor access to and quality of health care. Here we review the economic feasibility of the WHO's mother-baby package as a means of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Tanzania. This paper examines the costs of maternal health care in Tanzania, and how much can we expect households ...

Future wireless communication environments offer many possibilities for new services. Users will not be satisfied with simply being connected, but they will require useful services built on top of the wireless networks. iClouds is an architecture which offers spontaneous mobile user interaction, collaboration, and transparent data exchange in mobile ad hoc networks. In this paper we present sev...

The mission of public health has been succinctly stated as “the fulfillment of society’s interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy” (1). Public and private institutions charged with this mission monitor population health and respond when threats arise. These may be sudden health crises (eg, infectious outbreaks), persistent health problems (eg, chronic diseases), or buildup...