This paper presents the architecture and implementation of a multi-service streaming system for broadcast of MPEG4 elementary streams. The proposed system promotes the use of the push channel model for information distribution [1]. The system architecture accommodates two main layers for broadcast service management and media delivery. The broadcast service management layer uses the publisher-s...

BACKGROUND The risk of death from complications relating to pregnancy and childbirth over the course of a woman's lifetime is higher in the developing countries. Improving the health of mothers and children through well-organized institutional delivery service is central to achieve reduced maternal and child morbidity and mortality. So, factors that underlie the level of institutional delivery ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article was to describe a methodology to identify continuous quality improvement (CQI) priorities for one state's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program from among the 40 required constructs associated with 6 program benchmarks. The authors discuss how the methodology provided consensus on system CQI quality measure priorities and describe vari...

The delivery of emerging, high performance mobile services is traditionally limited to the cellular operator home domain. Due to the centralized nature of service platforms, resource-demanding services suffer from long delays when a user is accessing them when roaming. With the globalization of our society, such data intensive services are enabled at the high cost required by provisioning high-...