A countermeasure for round trip delay which occurs in between satellite and ground with network accelerator is investigated together with operating system dependency on effectiveness of accelerator. Also disaster relief data transmission experiments are conducted for mitigation of disaster together with acceleration of disaster related data transmission between local government and disaster pre...

Although many unauthorized immigrants have become politically active in campaigning for immigration reform, their ability to speak out publicly may depend more on political discretion than on the constitutional protections that citizens normally take for granted. Potential threats to immigrant free speech may be seen in three areas of law. First, the Department of Justice has made a broad claim...

Introduction In the 1980s the United States delivered several hundred missiles for Stinger Man-Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) to Afghan resistance groups, some members of which later formed the Taliban. After Moscow’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, the US government launched a buyback programme aimed at recovering the missiles. Despite offering rewards of USD 100,000 or more for e...

E have become an increasingly integral part of the virtual economic landscape. However, e-government systems have been plagued by an unsatisfactory, or even a decreasing, level of trust among citizen users. The political exclusivity and longstanding bureaucracy of governmental institutions have amplified the level of difficulty in gaining citizens’ acceptance of e-government systems. Through th...

Trust highlights as an important factor in helping citizens to overcome the perceived risks. Accordingly, the in-depth investigation of citizen’s trust has become a necessity for researchers and practitioners to understand citizens' acceptance of e-government in developed countries in general, and developing countries in particular. This research paper proposes a theoretical model to achieve th...

Modern information society depends upon an enormous variety of electronic devices in order to function on a day-to-day basis. Information and communication technology (ICT) devices are able to exchange information only if they adhere to common communication protocols, technical interfaces, and information formats. ICT standards are the blueprints enabling users to access, create, and exchange i...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(1) Progress The concept of human rights has progressed beyond the national politics in France and the USA of the late 18th century to numerous sectors, including health. Whereas governments are responsible for compliance with international human rights instruments, health professionals have a complementary role by respecting and promoting the rights...

2. PPPs also bring fiscal risks. These need to be mitigated and managed. To address these challenges, governments usually try to introduce PPP legal and institutional reforms to develop technically sophisticated PPP ecosystems that identify, structure and eventually only pursue PPP proposals that can maximize value-for-money (VfM) to tax-payers. These ecosystems exist to carry transactions from...

Fertility awareness methods (FAMs), comprising the Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM), the Standard Days Method (SDM), and the Two Day Method (TDM), are often left out of the basket of contraceptive options for women and couples because governments, donors, policy makers, and providers perceive them as inferior contraceptive methods. When FAMs are offered as an option, FAM users may be incorre...

Over the years the management of pension scheme in Nigeria has been inundated by multiple and diverse problems arising from which retirement became dreaded by workers especially in the public service. The failures of pension schemes in the country have been attributed to poor pension fund administration, outright corruption; embezzlement of pension fund; inadequate build-up of funds and poor su...