BACKGROUND Preconception care (PC) aims to identify and reduce a number of modifiable factors that can adversely affect pregnancy outcome. AIM To ascertain both knowledge of the attitudes towards PC among members of primary health care teams (PHCTs) and registered women of childbearing age in a representative sample of general practices in Harrow. METHOD A questionnaire survey was conducted...

as mobile technologies are becoming more advanced and mobile devices are making a big impact on daily life, a new type of payment system named mobile payment (m-payment) has emerged, enabling users to pay from their wireless devices especially mobile phones. this paper analyzes currently available wireless-payment systems and finds the stored-value card to be the best overall payment scheme for...

By considering a distributed system composed of a set of servers, clients, and resources, which characterize environments such as Grids or Clouds, we propose a distributed algorithm for resource allocation. It exploits fuzzy logic whenever a server, which cannot locally satisfy a client resource allocation request, needs to decide to which remote server the request should be forwarded. Furtherm...

A vast majority of the people in the western world use software systems on daily basis for achieving their goals. To be able to do that each person needs to communicate what he or she wants to do to the system and receive a response. This communication needs to be easy for the user, especially when the system is new to him or her. Otherwise, the user either quits using the system; it takes a ve...

Objectives: Extensive use of wheelchair increases caregiver dependency, risk of bedsores, risk of injury during transfer, and so on, and it effectively decreases quality of life, safety, and comfort of the people with disability. Therefore, improving the design of wheelchairs is highly essential in promoting the quality of life and level of participation among people with disability. The design...

Resources and services are accessible in pervasive computing environments from anywhere and at any time. Also, due to ever-changing nature of such environments, the identity of users is unknown. However, users must be able to access the required resources based on their contexts. These and other similar complexities necessitate dynamic and context-aware access control models for such environmen...

This paper is based on the research which was conducted earlier on Kansei Engineering (KE) and resulted in a new concept for scissors to redesign it with another method called “User Centered Design” (UCD). This is a shift from translation of the consumers’ psychological feeling about a product related to their perception of the design (KE) to focus on designing for and involving users in the de...

fundamentally, public services must be of high quality so as to satisfy the wants and needs of the beneficiaries. but it’s worrisome to discover that in uganda, public services provided are of poor quality due to unethical behaviors and wanting leadership. the purpose of this study is to show that transformational leadership can advance ethical culture to spur provision of quality services. a r...

rhetorical figures, which are frequently applied in advertisements, can add literary flavor to the texts, gratify audiences’ aesthetic needs, and deepen their impression. in advertisement translation, it is very common that the rhetorical figures applied in the original text are replaced with new ones in the translation. this research focuses on rhetorical figures’ function of enhancing audienc...

Land ownership and supply chain use cases are an enormous business challenge for both the public private sectors. Every organization has different needs wants, industry leaders researching exploring ways to improve impact their transaction processes. Blockchain Geospatial technologies two tools that could help add value in this manner. The combination of blockchain geospatial would result new c...