INTRODUCTION 5 billion people around the world do not have access to safe, affordable, timely surgical care. This series of qualitative interviews was launched by The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) with the aim of understanding the contextual challenges-the specific circumstances-faced by surgical care providers in low-resource settings who care for impoverished patients, and how t...

BACKGROUND This study is to identify, summarise and synthesise literature on the causes of the evidence to practice gap for complex interventions in primary care. DESIGN This study is a systematic review of reviews. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library and PsychINFO were searched, from inception to December 2013. Eligible reviews addressed causes of the evidence to practice gap...

This thesis examines issues of international technology transfer (ITT), focusing on the exploitation of foreign technology between countries with contrasting strengths and capabilities. The tendency in ITT is that it has mostly been limited to the triad countries and to some latecomer economies in East Asia. An explanation for this tendency is that the extent of this shared common ground betwee...

The implementation of integrated flood risk management (IFRM) is still in its infancy both developed and developing countries, yet some countries have already encountered barriers to IFRM adaptation. interrelationships between these need be determined analyzed systematically, as such an analysis the groundwork for decision-making when devising solutions overcome barriers. Interpretive Structura...

Background Despite a high burden of disease, in South Africa, intimate partner violence (IPV) is known to be poorly recognised and managed. To address this gap, an innovative intersectoral model for the delivery of comprehensive IPV care was piloted in a rural sub-district. Objective To evaluate the initiative from the perspectives of women using the service, service providers, and managers. De...

Generating targeted advertisements for online social networks is a problem of growing interest. Monetizing activity in online social networks has been the topic of heated discussion lately. The undiscriminating tastes and spending power of a majority of its members makes this medium for self-expression and opinion sharing a very lucrative venue for advertising. The recent $240 million investmen...

This paper presents a method for estimating contextual appropriateness of speaker’s emotions, supported with the analysis of Contextual Valence Shifters (CVS), which determine the semantic orientation of the valence of emotive expressions. In the proposed method a Web mining technique is used to verify the contextual appropriateness of the emotions recognized by a system for affect analysis sup...

In this paper, I describe how the methods of Rapid Contextual Design [2] were used in an elective course given on User Centered Design in Computer Science at Reykjavik University. The students used contextual interviews, affinity diagrams, data walk, visioning, paper prototypes and paper prototype interviews in a software project where the aim was to co-operate with real users when analyzing, d...

the aim of this study was to investigate developmental barriers of sport for all in selected state universities of tehran city and to present strategies to developing it. the method of this study was descriptive-correlation and application in terms of aim. the statistical population consisted of all male and female faculty members of faculties of physical education and sport sciences of selecte...

This research compared ratings of task performance and contextual performance from three different sources: self, peer, and supervisor. Participants were service industry employees in the service industries in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A Sample of 146 employees and 40 supervisors   from the service industries provided ratings of task performance and contextual performance. The results indicated th...