The development of supportive middleware to manage resources and distributed workload across multiple administrative boundaries is of central importance to Grid computing. Active middleware services that perform look-up, match-making, scheduling and staging are being developed that allow users to identify and utilise appropriate resources that provide sustainable systemand user-level qualities ...

One hundred and twenty patients treated consecutively for three days in-house in Khulna Medical College Hospital were surveyed randomly to determine their satisfaction on existing health services. The mostly middle aged male referred by the professional consultants treat either acute or chronic diseases. economically affluent people accessed all services (p<.000), including better place trea...

In a joint research project concerning the use and design of IT in public services, we are using a simple figure of on-going design-oriented interactions to highlight shifting foci on relationships of co-development of services, citizenship and technology. We bring together a number of concrete examples of this on-going everyday co-development, presented from the different perspectives that we,...

Supportive leadership is the hope of organizations that wish to be efficient and competitive in services. There a positive perception potentially increases job satisfaction members. To achieve under supportive leadership, other variables are needed achieving goals, including organizational support by subordinates. Therefore, this study examines predictively on as moderate variables. Data were o...

this study was undertaken to identify key elements for obtaining community interest and motivate them to support eliminate malaria in the places that malaria is no longer a perceived threat.sequential explanatory mixed methods research design used to provide more comprehensive evidence research. a questionnaire was developed after reviewing the literature relating to community participation for...

Learning Communities is one approach in individuals to improve their skills and knowledge. Web based learning communities provide additional capabilities such as global distribution of participants and asynchronous participation. The learning process in such communities is flexible and distributed, but still uni-directional: knowledge, advices and support is transferred from professors to stude...

A key question in welfare policy concerns the potential that welfare-to-work programs have to develop in teenage parents the motivation and skills to provide financially for themselves and their children. The Teenage Parent Welfare Demonstration was a major experiment initiated in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and evaluated by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., to tes...

background considerable development of mri technology in diagnostic imaging, high cost of mri technology and controversial issues concerning official charges (tariffs) have been the main motivations to define and implement this study. objectives the present study aimed to calculate the unit-cost of mri services using activity-based costing (abc) as a modern cost accounting system and to fairly ...

This is the official guideline endorsed by the specialty associations involved in the care of head and neck cancer patients in the UK. It provides recommendations on the assessment and interventions for the psychological management in this patient group. Recommendations • Audit of information supplied to patients and carers should be conducted on an annual basis to update and review content and...