With the growing popularity of CORBA as a distributed computing infrastructure standard, the need for a reliable CORBA messaging solution is being increasingly felt. The Event Service, which is the first such solution, provides inadequate event delivery guarantees and lacks many important features such as configurable quality of service and filtering. A Notification Service has since been speci...

The research sought to establish the state of service delivery in the Mashonaland West town of Chegutu. The following main question was central to the research: How do stakeholders perceive service delivery from Chegutu Municipality? The study raises awareness on the part of service providers, to take stock of existing service delivery and then come up with strategies to improve the services. T...

South African service delivery paradigms are undergoing a period of decentralisation. Local government/local municipalities are the preferred vehicles, selected by national government, to implement national policy, manage and deliver water services to local populations. Municipalities face a significant challenge of reducing apartheid backlogs, raising the level of service delivery and maintain...

BACKGROUND Sub Saharan Africa is confronted with a wide range of interlinked health and economic problems that include high levels of mortality and poor service delivery. The objective of the paper is to develop a spatial model for Sub-Saharan Africa that can quantify the mortality impact of (poor) service delivery at sub-district level in order to integrate related health and local level polic...

BACKGROUND Patient's satisfaction with medical service delivery/assessment of medical service/trust in health delivery system may have significant influence on patient's life satisfaction in China's health delivery system/in various kinds of hospitals.The aim of this study was to test whether and to what extent patient's satisfaction with medical service delivery/patient's assessments of variou...