Construction project management (CPM) is a technical-oriented service for construction project clients. Evaluating the performance of service providers is beneficial both to purchasers, enabling them to appraise the services received, and to providers, helping them to improve their services. However, no appraisal system for such services exists. This study developed a novel customer satisfactio...

This article presents a scheme for enforcing access rights untransferability in a client-server scenario. Assumptions include a central authority and servers which are trusted and hold no access information about clients. For a client sharing none of her rights, usurpation of a right seems as hard as the discrete logarithm. Also, rights sharing between clients does not compromise their non-shar...

A scheme for ensuring access rights untransferability in a client-server ecenario with a central authority and where servers hold no access information about clients is presented in this paper; an extension to a multi-authority scenario is conceivable, since servers are also authority independent. Usurping a right with no information at all about other clients is for a client as hard as the dis...

This paper examines the importance of requiring a disk resource management mechanism for disconnected services and presents a robust system that embodies several features that are required of such a disconnected framework. Disconnected services in which clients access services in degraded mode (i.e without relying on network connectivity) are important for providing greater service availability...

BACKGROUND Owing to improved management of HIV and its associated opportunistic infections, many HIV-positive persons of reproductive age are choosing to exercise their right of parenthood. This study explored the knowledge of health workers from two Ghanaian districts on the reproductive rights and options available to HIV-positive women who wish to conceive. METHODS Facility-based cross-sec...