A precise determination of direct and indirect costs of implementing the Freedom of Information Act is not possible because agencies generally lack detailed supporting records. Costs of over $61 million were identified mainly from agencies’ 1981 annual reports. The reports vary widely in the ways costs are categorized and measured but provide an indicator of total cost. Inquiries at four agenci...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the use of electronic information resources and facilities by humanities scholars at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey of faculty from arts and humanities departments at the University of the Punjab was conducted. In total, 62 faculty and research staff participated. Findings – Th...

BACKGROUND Following the launch of District Health Information System 2 across facilities in Kenya, more health facilities are now capable of carrying out malaria parasitological testing and reporting data as part of routine health information systems, improving the potential value of routine data for accurate and timely tracking of rapidly changing disease epidemiology at fine spatial resoluti...

Article history: Received January 20, 2014 Accepted 30 August 2014 Available online September 1

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based systems have been used in different applications in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner and Operator (AECOO) industry. Applications are mainly designed for specific lifecycle stage and serve the needs of only one of the stakeholders. This would increase the cost and the labor for adding and removing tags and eliminate the chance of usin...

The topical problem of oil pollution monitoring in water areas is considered in the paper. Recently, the solution to this problem has been found by the complex use of space and land data within geoinformation systems. Thus, the data obtained from remote sensing of Earth (RSE) satellites supplement the data obtained from traditional land-based and aviation sources. Features of application of bot...

The objectives of this article are to provide streamlined technique, including the Delphi approach, Bayesian update and two-dimensional Monte Carlo analysis(2D MCA), and to provide information through the investigation of factors in risk model which supports risk assessment for the radiological risk assessment in operation of such radiation facilities with vague information. The scope of this s...

The development of large software systems is a typical example for collaborative development efforts. Moreover, software development becomes more and more component-oriented. The source for these components can be either a component repository inside an organization or one of the emerging open source development networks available in the Internet. In this paper we describe an approach to search...

complied with the regulations of the University and meets with the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. Facilities managers need to identify and understand deterioration/failure causes-effect patterns in order to prepare preventive maintenance plans. However, this task is difficult because of the complex interaction between different building components and their operatio...