Imagine you are the person responsible for the application portfolio of a large insurance company. For their business the company runs one monolithic system for most of its product divisions1. This system is 25 years old, written in Assembler and sits on an IMS/DB database. This is the old town. It’s at the end of it’s potential growth and people want to move out of it to the other side of the ...

The male condom remains the single, most efficient and available technology to reduce sexual transmission of HIV as well as sexually transmitted infections. This study sought to establish condom use determinants and practices among people living with HIV (PLHIVs) in Kisii County, Kenya. We interviewed 340 PLHIVs and 6 health workers. Although most PLHIVs had correct knowledge and approved condo...

Background: A road traffic accident is an incident on a way or street open to public traffic, resulting in one or more persons being killed or injured, and involving at least one moving vehicle. The purpose of this study was to present the prevalence and factors associated with road traffic accident in Chuko town , Southern Ethiopia Materials and Method: Community based cross sectional study w...

A townscape has been a main factor in urban-development problems in Japan. In the townscape, keeping harmony with environment is a common goal. But useful and meaningful goals are expressing individuality and impression of the town in the townscape. In this paper, we propose the colour planning support system to improve the townscape. The system finds propositional colour combinations based on ...

T his study sought to find out the role of supplier relations management on performance selected hospitals in Kisii County. The methodology this was purely qualitative. In present study, a census survey approach taken which target population comprising all 115 registered County formed sample. Purposive sampling techniques then employed whereby units analysis were key informants top level offici...

Background: Existing literature on the built environment and physical activity in rural areas is very limited. Studies have shown that residents in rural areas are less likely to meet physical activity requirements than their counterparts living in urban and suburban areas. They are also less likely to have access to amenities and programs that promote physical activity. This study seeks to fil...

in this research, amount of evaporation and transpiration and water requirement of wheat plant for marvdasht town (representation station: zaraghan) during 17-years statistical duration from 1989-2005 and properties of plant and soil are calculated using cropwat software. at the first, trends of dry and wet periods for mentioned station were determined using long-term average of climatic data (...