The significance of aligning usability and interactivity of web portals with government service delivery strategy is widely recognized, but the lack of appropriate methodologies prevented government units and their constituents from integrating web portal projects with e-government service delivery performance. This paper addresses the issue of delivering electronic government services using th...

This research aims to estimate the delivery time and energy cost of e-scooter vehicles for distributing mail or packages show usage efficiency sharing services in postal service Turkey. The machine learning (ML) methods used implement prediction as output variables include random forest (RF), gradient boosting (GB), k-nearest neighbour (kNN), neural network (NN) algorithms. Fifteen input under ...

BACKGROUND Promotion of institutional delivery is a key intervention in reducing maternal mortality and improving maternal and neonatal health. This study explored factors associated with institutional delivery in rural Nepal. METHOD A household survey was conducted in three rural Village Development Committees of Kavrepalanchowk district to identify the individual, household and health servi...

An Ad-hoc network has a Provision of Quality of Service (QoS) to support many applications like digital and multimedia applications. However, one of the challenging tasks in Ad-hoc Network (MANET &VANET) is Quality of Service (QoS) which is determined by numerous parameters such as bandwidth and delay constraints, varying channel conditions, power limitations, node mobility, dynamic topology, p...

BACKGROUND Despite impressive decreases in under-five mortality, progress in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in Tanzania has been slow. We present an evaluation of a cadre of maternal, newborn, and child health community health worker (MNCH CHW) focused on preventive and promotive services during the antenatal and postpartum periods in Morogoro Region, Tanzania. Study findings review t...

This reprint of a journal article focuses on the use of computers and other personal assistive devices by disabled persons. Topics covered include: a perspective on the use of advanced technology; distinction between technological appliances which provide benefits to the individual independent of the individual's skill level, versus tools which require development of special skills to gain full...

In this paper we explore the potential of recommendation systems in an environment where users can access a variety of services from different locations. In particular we explore the use of adaptive technologies to recommend new services to users based on context, which we define in terms of four factors: time, location, user behaviour and user profile. A multi-agent service delivery architectu...

Many transportation providers such as package delivery companies and postal service organizations face the problem of designing a transportation network in order to service their customers. This network must balance the requirement of on-time delivery under tight time window constraints with the goal of low-cost operations of the fleet. Until recently this task was usually performed by planners...