Semantic interoperability among command and control information systems is critical to information sharing and proper automated processing. To improve multinational combined and joint mission capabilities, the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) has defined the Joint Command, Control, and Consultation Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM), which is gaining wide acceptance beyond t...

The Joint Consultation, Command, and Control Information Exchange Data Model (JC3IEDM ) of the Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) is one of the most acknowledged and influential data models in the military area. The JC3IEDM is specified as an Entity-Relationship model that is tailored to the specific needs of the database replication approach of the MIP solution. While the model grew...

INTRODUCTION Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) contribute to achieving development goals through advocacy, social mobilisation and provision of health services. CSO programming is a key component of Global Fund (GF) grants; however, CSOs face technical and governance capacity challenges in grant utilisation leading to missed opportunities for improving health at community level. Amref Health A...

This paper presents a Decision Support System (DSS) for student advising. The system aims to provide students with an automated programme planning and scheduling service that best fits their profiles while meeting academic requirements. After the literature survey and description of the system’s architecture, the paper describes the new paradigm that models student advising as a search problem,...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to obtain a list of desirable skills and attributes of prospective educational programme directors as judged by potential employers of future directors. DESIGN An international mail survey was conducted worldwide, using a one-page, open-ended questionnaire. SETTING University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. SUBJECTS Deans, department heads and chief e...

A 6-month Maori community-based asthma self-management programme, involving a "credit card" asthma self-management plan, has previously been shown to be an effective and acceptable system for reducing asthma morbidity. The effectiveness of the asthma self-management programme and participants' self-management behaviour was assessed 6 yrs after the formal end of the programme. Participants were ...

Evaluation of strategies to ensure evidence-based, low-cost interventions reach those in need is critical. One approach is to measure the strength, or intensity, with which packages of interventions are delivered, in order to explore the association between implementation strength and public health gains. A recent systematic review suggested methodological guidance was needed. We described the ...

Patient involvement and empowerment through the National Plans for Rare Disorders (NPRD) (Eastern Europe) We present the current situation of the NPRD from Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary: three different countries confronted with the same problems and limits, and most probably not so different realities. Bulgaria: the NPRD was officially launched on 1 January 2009. The draft for rare diseases an...

the susceptibility to terbacil of six randomly selected strawberry cultivars (‘aromas’, ‘chambly’, ‘harmonie’, ‘kent’, ‘la clé des champs’ and ‘seascape’) was analysed using chlorophyll florescence (cf) in comparison with visual observation, in an attempt to develop a method for use in a breeding programme to select herbicide-resistant strawberry lines. terbacil was applied at one of five rates...