The client-provider relationship is increasingly evaluated as an active ingredient in the delivery of substance abuse treatment services. This study examines gender differences in client-provider relationship as an important treatment ingredient affecting retention in treatment and reduced post-treatment substance use. The study uses data collected for the National Treatment Improvement Evaluat...

Many companies today rely heavily on specialized information technology (IT) suppliers for fulfilling their IT demands. However, external provision, i.e., outsourcing, of IT services is a risky endeavor, and expectations are frequently not met. This dissertation addresses the challenge of successfully managing outsourcing relationships between clients and IT suppliers. The dissertation begins b...

We propose an infrastructure for collaborative content management and version control for structured mathematical knowledge. This will enable multiple users to work jointly on mathematical theories with minimal interference. We describe the API and the functionality needed to realize a cvs-like version control and distribution model. This architecture extends the cvs architecture in two ways, m...

Lexical Navigation provides users with a convenient technique for moving between related documents and terms within a collection without ever having to formulate an exact query to retrieve these related entities. It consists of a visual interface client and an index file . We discuss the algorithms we used to construct unnamed and named relations and the Java libraries we have developed. Many r...

What happens when a group of structurally powerless refugees exist within nation-state’s territory but outside its regulatory institutions? An empirical study the education Pakistani Christian in Bangkok, Thailand, identifies an entrenched gap between provided by INGOs and refugee expectations academic their children. We generalise from specific problem educational discrepancy to deeper structu...

In this paper, we introduce the implementation of a data mining system we developed to search for patterns from large sets of relational databases. In the database that we obtained from a bank, there is large amount of information of the bank " s clients and companies that the clients are related to, as well as relations among the clients and companies (the sensitive and personal information is...

This study evaluates the effect of a nurse training program in family planning counseling skills on the quality of service delivery at the clinic level, as well as its impact on client compliance with prearranged appointments. The study used a quasi-experimental design to compare certified nurses who received six weeks of family planning technical training with certified nurses who, in addition...

What is the role of a firm’s internal social relations between business departments and IT unit for the success of its IT outsourcing relationship? In this paper, we propose that the relationship between business and IT of a firm is crucial for achieving effective outsourcing management and for enabling the vendor to deliver the services as demanded. Since the business side of the client firm r...