The system is currently being evaluated by a randomized controlled trial of conputer system records versus standard hospital records in respect of efficiency in recording and retrieval of information, (the timne it takes to use the system, the amistrative effort, and the cost. Patients attending hypertension clinics are highly selected, the group hopes to develop a modified version of the syste...

BACKGROUND One strategy to enhance research use and change current practice is to identify barriers and then implement tailored interventions to reduce these barriers. In nursing, the BARRIERS scale has been frequently used to identify nurses' perceptions of barriers to research utilization. However, this scale has not been applied to care of older people, and only one study has investigated ho...

This paper examines the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in a multinational organization. In doing so, it evaluates and critiques the existing literature, and then provides an alternative analysis of ERP implementation based on the concept of knowledge integration, which involves the on-going interaction cross-functionally between organizational members. By examining ...

ICT has provided the infrastructure to enable easy access to scientific information. Despite this, libraries are suffering from the rising of journal subscriptions. Additionally, the structure of scholarly publications is creating a wasteful situation where publicly funded research is being paid for several times over. University libraries are struggling to deal with these new realities at the ...

In this paper we construct an information-theoretic model of architectural drawings. This model is then used to quantify and measure the complexities and similarities of drawings. The approach is applied within a linear qualitative shape representation but can be generalized to other types of representation. The descriptive and analytic power of the proposed methods are demonstrated by studying...