This paper presents a study of Web content adaptation to improve server overload performance, as well as an implementation of a Web content adaptation software prototype. When the request rate on a Web server increases beyond server capacity, the server becomes overloaded and unresponsive. The TCP listen queue of the server’s socket overflows exhibiting a drop-tail behavior. As a result, client...

BACKGROUND Clinical staff offering sexual health services to young people need to balance the rights of the young person to confidentiality and good quality advice with the need to protect their wider interests. The needs of young clients may be complex and raise ethical and medico-legal questions for the staff involved in their care. METHODS In our large, integrated sexual health service, a ...

As a result of the increase in number lawyers, need arose for them to become as well-known possible market, both with aim attracting new clients and retaining loyalty existing clients. The manner which lawyers can make themselves known has raised problems legislative barriers restricting their rights this regard. By conducting research, authors tried identify ways services without violating leg...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.11.083 E-mail address: [email protected] 1 PLN is the abbreviation of the Polish currency unit In this article, we test the usefulness of the popular data mining models to predict churn of the clients of the Polish cellular telecommunication company. When comparing to previous studies on this topic, our research is novel...

BACKGROUND We explored healthcare provider perspectives and practices regarding safer conception counseling for HIV-affected clients. METHODS We conducted semistructured interviews with 38 providers (medical and clinical officers, nurses, peer counselors, and village health workers) delivering care to HIV-infected clients across 5 healthcare centres in Mbarara District, Uganda. Interview tran...

background and objectives: hijama as a form of traditional medicine is used for treatment and prevention of diseases and maintenance of homeostasis. throughout the centuries it has been known as a national, cultural and religious form of therapy among iranian people and also the pillars of islamic practice and tradition. one of the common problems regarding this kind of therapy is that most pat...

background: underutilization of mental health care services has been a challenge for the health care providers for many years. this challenge could be met in part by improving the clients’ readiness to use such services. this study aimed to introduce the important aspects of the clients’ readiness to use mental health services in the iranian context. materials and methods: a thematic analysis o...

Usage control is a generalization of access control that also addresses how data is handled after it is released. Controlling the future usage of data includes controlling the future distribution of data. The evolution of policies upon re-distribution must hence be defined. Intuitively, clients should only strengthen policies associated with a data item when they re-distribute it. We provide a ...

This article examines the effect of financial sanctions for noncompliance on the earnings of TANF clients. Current research on TANF sanctioning is descriptive, and few studies estimate the effect of sanctions on client outcomes. To estimate the causal effect of sanctioning, we utilize longitudinal data from Florida and a difference-in-difference propensity-score matching estimator. We compare t...

During the past few years copyright holders and holders of related rights have started to legally challenge peer-to-peer networks. Their latest strategy consists of trying to actively involve Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in this combat, e.g. through the implementation of filters. This development raises legal problems and questions both in terms of the liability of ISPs and the protection ...