PLANDoc, a system under joint development by Columbia and Bellcore, documents the activity of planning engineers as they study telephone routes. It takes as input a trace of the engineer’s interaction with a network planning tool and produces 1-2 page summary. In this paper, we describe the user needs analysis we performed and how it influenced the development of PLANDoc. In particular, we show...

this study aimed to evaluate the attitude of pediatricians toward the use of complementary and traditional medicine (tm) on children in muscat, oman. a cross-sectional survey was performed using a self-completed questionnaire during the year 2012. a total of 67 pediatricians, comprising of 30 males (44.8%) and 37 females (55.2%) participated in the study. the majority of the studied group (83.5...

Shifting deliveries from trucks to cargo bikes is a strategic target in several Sustainable Urban Logistic Plans (SULP). Modal shift on the last mile can be justified by reclaiming urban space for pedestrians and improve amenity of using spaces. Complementary private car parking needs substantially reduced. Recipient-based delivery strategies contribute consolidate inner city provide modal bikes.

Reliability in decision making about intervention plans is a necessary condition for evidence-based probation work and equal treatment of offenders. Structuring decision making can improve agreement between clinical decision makers. In a former study however, we found that in Dutch probation practice structured risk and needs assessment did not result in acceptable agreement about intervention ...

The authors are developing a pilot project for a Municipality in the North of Portugal, envisaging the definition and implementation of an e-marketplace for healthcare and social services, in order to facilitate the interaction between healthcare and social services professionals and people with special needs (or their relatives). Based on the results of a survey on user needs analysis and expe...

introductions: due to versatility and wide range of health care services, the social care insurance organizations can not afford undertaking all health care services for the insured. this is why additional services are taken over by private or commercial health care insurance companies. such services are known as complementary insurance. in this study , it was decided to investigate the satisfa...

the purpose of this study was designing predictive model for innovation management in processing and complementary industries of livestock products. the method of research was correlative descriptive. the population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of livestock products of khouzestan province (n=486). by stratified random sampling, a random sample (n=125)...