Background Nigeria accounts for a significant proportion of global maternal mortality figures with little progress made in curbing poor health indices. In a bid to reverse this trend, the Government of Nigeria initiated a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme to encourage pregnant women utilize services at designated health facilities. This study aims to understand experiences of women who ...

SUMMARY In this paper we describe a software subsystem that can be added to each of a set of physically interconnected UNIX or UNIX look-alike systems, so as to construct a distributed system which is functionally indistinguishable at both the user and the program level from a conventional single-processor UNIX system. The techniques used are applicable to a variety and multiplicity of both loc...

Two design rules which aid the construction of distributed computing systems and the provision of fault tolerance are described, namely that: (i) a distributed computing system should be functionally equivalent to the individual computing systems of which it is composed, and (ii) fault tolerant systems should be constructed from generalised fault tolerant components. The reasoning behind these ...

For the development of eficient parallel applications, fast but reliable performance predictions are essential. Many existing modelling formalisms are either not directly suited to model parallel applications, or too expensive. This paper describes several extensions and improvements to a previously introduced methodology, based on an extension of queueing networks. The set of machine model bui...

A major debate in the international marketing literature deals with the globalization of markets and the extent to which a company’s international marketing strategy can be standardized (Buzzell, 1968; Cavusgil et al., 1993; Douglas and Wind, 1987; Hill and Still, 1984; Jain, 1989; Levitt, 1983; Sorenson and Wiechmann, 1975). Significant progress has been made with respect to the extent to whic...

In tropical areas of China, energy saving is an important part architectural design, and the energy-saving potential residential buildings has attracted extensive attention. This paper studies daylighting, ventilation, building consumption in to find out best performance parameters. The model established by grasshopper, parameters ventilation cooling load are simulated. octopus plug-in grasshop...