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...

Recently, many web services to provide information for public transport are developed and released. They are optimized for mobile devices such a smartphone. We are also developing better path planning system for route buses and trains called “Bus-Net”[1]. However these systems only provide paths and related information before the user start moving. So we propose a context aware navigation to ch...

In February 2008 TNO produced a public report summarising its security analysis of the Dutch OVChipkaart. The TNO analysis had been commissioned by Translink Systems (TLS) to assess a technical presentation at a recent conference of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), which claimed that the Mifare Classic card technology and algorithm had been broken and were essentially unfit to underpin the securi...

Wastewater management focused, for many years, on the treatment of wastewater to protect the environment and safeguard the public health. An integrated approach to wastewater management is more extensive and includes the control of generation, collection and transport, treatment, disposal and reuse of wastewater in a manner that is in accord with the best principles of public health, economics,...

BACKGROUND We investigated predictors of two increases in older people's public transport use: initiating public transport use among non-users; and increasing public transport use amongst users. We also investigated associations of these changes with physical activity, Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist circumference. METHODS Data come from the 2008 and 2012 English Longitudinal Study of Ageing ...

In today’s digital world, multimedia content is delivered to homes via the Internet, satellite, terrestrial and cable networks. Scrambling is a common approach used by conditional access systems to prevent unauthorized access to audio/visual data. The descrambling keys are securely distributed to the receivers in the same transmission channel. Their protection is an important part of the key ma...