Client expectations and preferences about therapy represent an important area of investigation as research shows they are linked to engagement in therapy and therapy outcomes. Studies examining young people’s expectations and preferences of therapy remain a neglected area of research. The present study explored what expectations and preferences young people seeking professional help held regard...

Understanding and measuring end to end service performance perceived by the clients is a chal lenging task Client perceived web site responses are downloaded web pages Typically a web page is composed from multiple objects a main HTML le and several embedded objects such as images However HTTP does not provide any means to delimit the beginning or the end of a web page to e ectively measure the...

OBJECTIVES This study hypothesized that several baseline client characteristics (i.e. age, symptoms, insight, social functioning) would significantly predict client-rated group alliance in out-patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. DESIGN Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to evaluate the contributions of selected baseline individual client characteristics and group level ch...

Remote Laboratories or WebLabs constitute a first order didactic resource in engineering faculties. However, in many cases they lack a proper software design, both in the client and server side, which degrades their quality and academic usefulness. This work presents the main characteristics of a Remote Lab, analyses the software technologies to implement the client and server sides in a WebLab...

The quality of outsourced IT services can be traced to attributes of the services such as tangibles, responsiveness, reliability, assurance, and empathy. The relative impact of these attributes on client satisfaction varies across different IT services (applications, data center, EUC support, network administration, and help desk), and one or few attributes stand out as “drivers” of client sati...

A new kind of web applications came up to overcome the limitations of traditional web applications regarding the usability and interactivity of their user interfaces: the so-called Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). New languages and frameworks mainly drive the development of RIAs, but engineering of RIAs is a very new field in the area of software engineering in which a precise definition of R...

Community based organizations (CBOs) play a frontline role in HIV/AIDS prevention activities. CBOs face formidable challenges to effective delivery of HIV prevention services including client characteristics such as homelessness and CBO characteristics such as limited resources and staff turnover. Despite these obstacles, CBOs are generally well positioned to deliver services to specific high-r...

The role of brokers in client-server systems is to accommodate flexible, open, heterogeneous system design and to facilitate fault tolerance and improved performance through load balancing. Some architectural design decisions, such as broker distribution and server replication, strongly affect the system performance. The paper presents alternative client-broker-server architectures and compares...

Client disks ure a valuable resource that ure not adequately exploited by current client-server ciatabase systems. In this papeG we propose the use of client disks for caching database pages in an extended cache architecture. We describe four algorithms .fi)r managing disk caches and investigate the tradeoffs inherent in keeping a large volume of disk-cached data consistent using u detailed sim...